Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy, and Structural Change

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 325 pages
Publication date: 29 June 2022
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc

The demand for texts that provide a structural and legal lens for understanding entrenched health inequity in the U.S. has grown in response to the national reckoning around structural inequity, racism, and intractable health inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the urgency of this approach.

To address this need, authors Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler and Joel Teitelbaum have expanded and updated their first edition, Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy, and Structural Change, Second Edition. This unparalleled new edition delves into the historical, structural, and legal underpinnings of racial, ethnic, gender-based, and ableist inequities in health, offering a framework for students to consider how and why health inequity is tied to the ways that laws are structured and enforced. Additionally, it provides analysis of potential solutions and proposes how law can be used as a tool to remedy health injustice.

Written for a wide, interdisciplinary audience of students and scholars in public health, medicine, and law, as well as other health professions, this accessible text discusses both the systems and policies that influence health and explores opportunities to advocate for legal and policy change by public health practitioners and policymakers, physicians, health care professionals, lawyers, and lay people.

Key Features:

Contextualizes health justice through examination of theoretical underpinnings and historical social justice movements.

Provides analysis of how law and policy structure injustices that harm health and drive health inequities.

Includes chapters on the intersection of health and the criminal justice system, the role of the media in shaping public perception of health equity, and the impact of globalization on health equity.

Ensures accessibility by using plain language and engaging visuals.

By offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on health justice, Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy, and Structural Change, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners seeking to understand and address the complex challenges of health inequity in the U.S. and beyond.

ISBN-13: 9781284248142
Edition number: 2 ed