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mind map #5
Health is Political: Advocacy & Mobilization for Latinx Health
The Power Within Us
Leadership
Political agency -- capacity to effect social change
Bad
Strict identification laws -- negative impact on the turnout of racial & ethnic minorities in U.S. elections
Immigration enforcement -- emotional & behavioral problems among immigrant school-age students
Attentions to the Social Determinants of Health
Factors that influence health can be divided into intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, community, & policy levels
Commission’s 3 key recommendations
Improve daily living conditions
Tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money, & resources; &
Measure & understand the problem & assess the impact of action
Health disparities
Health inequities
Avoidable, unjust, & unfair distribution of health determinants
Result from not changing the critical & modifiable social determinants of health that produce health for all people
Differences in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different pop. groups
Stress the identification of health disparities by pop. comparisons, not their solutions
Offers little in terms of interventions & improved health
Doesn’t prioritize structural-level interventions
Take intense political will & long-term commitment (decades)
Politics & Health
Social determinants of health is influenced by political interventions -- relies on political actions & inactions
Power is exercised to shape economic, social, & political systems -- influence health & changing the conditions under which people can be healthy requires political awareness & struggle
Latinx pop. are marginalized as a minority group; limited access to political power among latinx persons; & limited access to power is systematically reinforced in a society dominated by configurations of class & status
Freedom, mobility, migration, & citizenship are challenged
Health Advocacy
TransLatinx
Visibility, empowerment & access to primary healthcare
Public positions to support or provide recommendations to promote health
Used advocacy to challenge discrimination & invisibility in multiple sectors
Opening
Health is political
WHO’s health disparities & social determinants of health framework by have contributed to the misconception that these issues have been adequate recognized & understood & are being successfully addressed
Toward Sustainable Latinx Health
Accountability of policymakers for pop. health at all levels of policy-making
Decentralize government functions & facilitate the empowerment of local grassroots organizations in community & populations health & wellbeing
Health in all policies
Keywords
Latinx politics, Puerto Rico, Advocacy, Community-based participatory research, & health disparities
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Considered a partnership approach to research that equitably involves community members, organization representatives, & researchers in all aspects of the research process
Contribute their expertise with shared responsibility & ownership; enhances the understanding of a given phenomenon; & it integrates the knowledge gained with action to improve the health & well-being of community members
Abstract
Political nature of health -- health disparities & health inequities
Effect change to improve Latinx health & well-being
Community mobilization
Process for reaching different sectors of a community or pop. & building partnerships in order to address a prioritized public health issue
Transcend their differences to meet on equal terms for a participatory decision-making process
Provides for ownership & sustainability of actions & involves key stakeholder, community leaders, community members, & other who can be affected by the issue been addressed
Moving Beyond Salmon Bias: Mexican Return Migration & Health Selection
Discussion
Mixed support for salmon bias -- suggest that barriers to health care may increase the probability of return migration
Medical returns
Access to health-related services is partially responsible for driving patterns of salmons bias
Mexican immigrants -- less likely to visit a physician -- undocumented persons face the greatest barriers to receiving medical care -- lack of insurance
Introduction
Health differences between Mexican immigrant & native-born populations
Distinguish between voluntary & involuntary return migrant
Return migration among those who are less healthy -- so it looks like Mexican immigrant may be more healthy to being with
Theoretical Background
Healthy migrant hypothesis -- immigrants exhibit better health than those who remain in their country of origin
Salmon bias hypothesis -- apparent Hispanic health advantage arises from selective return migration when those who are comparably less healthy return to their country of origin
Migrants return to their sending country upon falling ill -- possibly to reside with family members or obtain health services
If less-healthy migrants leave the U.S. in nontrib=val numbers, mortality, & morbidity estimates for those who remain will also be downwardly biased
Migrant selection
Protective cultural factors among migrant pop.
Selective migration flows
Data misreporting
Abstract
Mexican health advantage may be partially attributable to selective return migration among less healthy migrants -- salmon bias