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Public Health Liberation is dedicated to elevating public health to be aligned with everyday experiences with health. This includes creative expression, news aggregation, and storytelling. We believe that pathways for improved community health is deeply embedded in being receptive and responsive to diverse human expression, communication, and needs. Public Health Liberation deeply values the indispensable role and contribution of women as the gateway for achieving health equity.
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Public Health Economic Analysis
Racial equity laws can be highly beneficial but depends on the overall health of the public health economy. An example from Washington, DC is instructive to elucidate the concept of the public health economy. This economy contrasts with the traditional growth and employment economy. Public health economic theory levels with the political, economic, and social realities to enrich public health understanding of health inequity reproduction. While it takes public health well beyond its traditional disciplinary boundaries, the notion of the public health economy seeks fuller explanations for persistent disparities.
Defending Women and Families Against Policy Violence
The DC Housing Authority held its final listening session on Thursday, May 18 at the King-Greenleaf Recreation Center in Southwest. DC Council required the Stabilization and Reform Board to conduct listening sessions with public housing residents throughout the city as part of a December law reforming the agency's board. The event featured remarks from a panel of Southwest resident council presidents, followed by public testimonies from more than a dozen residents. With few exceptions, all of those who testified were Black women. Their experiences living in poor conditions are best understood as gender and racial policy violence against women and families. Through their tears and justified anger at times, the public health consequences of DCHA's longstanding dysfunction as the city's largest landlord and most notorious slumlord came into full view.
Rethinking Race and Black History Month- Lessons from US Capital
This cross-posting from Southwest Voice examines vast racial economic and health disparities in Washington, DC through accommodationist and cultural meanings of race among Black Americans and society. Washington, DC is the site of growing apartheid - a term not used loosely. DC has the highest spending per capita and the highest health spending per capita of any US city while racial differences in income and life expectancy continue to grow. Life expectancy for Blacks is worse than the US overall. The Black population is sizable, equaling the White population. City leadership is majority Black. These trends raise profound questions about the relevance of race and provide insight into barriers to racial equity. If racial inequity is flourishing in Washington, DC, then is the US facing greater headwinds to realize racial equity than public health discourse suggests? This discussion is highly consequential to public health theory and practice.
Creative Arts.
“Maybe, we the project”
University professor and poetess PS Perkins reminds us about the humanity and lived experiences of families who live in public housing communities. She read her poem, “When a House is Not a Home” at the PHL National Webinar and Conversation on Liberation Philosophy, Systems Thinking, and Social Determinants of Health.
Documentary on Gentrification Captures Community Voices
Prior to starting Public Health Liberation,, Christopher Williams began an unfinished documentary to capture community voices in this gentrifying neighborhood of Washington, DC.
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