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Mind Map #6 - Coggle Diagram
Mind Map #6
My thoughts
Health Is political
This article goes into detail about how people in the Latinx communities are being severely under represented in political policy decisions.
This directly impacts the way that people are being treated at the most basic level, access to health care. I thought that this article and the information brought up about how intertwined the world of politics is with the health world.
Having this entanglement of policy vs. equity impacts the Latinx community extremely hard. This is because the latinx community ranges in religion and political leanings so that impacts how they get political representation and still doesn't include everyone.
Salmon Bias
I have never heard of the Salmon Bias before reading this article and I think that it is extremely interesting because I didn't realize there was a term for a system of racism and ableism to be supported and continue to thrive.
The study concept was really interesting to me looking deeply into two different information sources to gather the data for the paper and they found that those who were deported against their will were more likely to suffer from mental or physical illness.
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Health Is political
This Chapter talks about how scientific studies back up the fact that latinx communities are at a continual disadvantage from policies being created partainint to health concerns. The article claims that the reson these issues are so prevelent with little to no conversation around them is due to the World Health Organizations (WHO) that underminds this group by protraying the message that this demographics health inequalities have already been taken care of; this is not the case.
The conversations that are had about the latinx population and health disparities present themselves in academic settings but instead of talking about how it is actually due to flaws in the system of health policies causing this health crisis but instead argue how the health issues and disparities are seen as outcomes.
What are social determinants of health?
Social determinants of health can be described as economic and social resources made available to people, for example, housing, quality education, jobs that pay at a living wage. Therefore the health of the individual, commujnity and population relys on political legislation.
Thus, the reason that Latinx populations are at risk and suffer from health disparities due to political decisions is because the voice of Latinx populations is muffled as they don't have access to political power.
What is Community Mobilization? It is the process of reaching all parts of a community to make sure that everyone's voice is heard and that way they can be represented. This is paticularly hard with Latinx communities because they dont all share the same religion or political leniance.
As laws change concerning mobility, freedom, migration,and Jobs that pay a living wage it puts people in Latinx communities at a disadvantage because there is a lack of Representation and the system that we currently have already predisposes them to experiencing health disparities, even though health has been recognized as a human right
The article talks about how part of the issues around what questions people are asking about these glaring health disparities.
Health Advocacy is incredibly important as well as representation in these political policy decisions otherwise there is legislation made that is supported by racism, classism, xenophobia among other "isms" that place people in the Latinx community at a disadvantage. Health advocosay requires representation.
What do we do now? The article states that there are too many health disparities within the Latinx communities to receive Health equity. The first steps to take, however, is advocacy and representation.