Open AccessPerspective: Hope for Health Equity
Author(s) -
George Rust
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ethnicity and disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.767
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1945-0826
pISSN - 1049-510X
DOI - 10.18865/ed.27.2.117
Subject(s) - operationalization , equity (law) , health equity , social justice , perspective (graphical) , opposition (politics) , psychology , political science , sociology , public relations , social psychology , criminology , epistemology , health care , law , politics , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence
Times like these test the soul. We are now working for health equity in a time of overt, aggressive opposition. Yet, hope in the face of overwhelming obstacles is the force that has driven most of the world’s progress toward equity and justice. Operationalizing real-world hope requires an affirmative vision, an expectation of success, broad coalitions taking action cohesively, and frequent measures of collective impact to drive rapid-cycle improvement. Ethn Dis. 2017;27(2):117-120; doi:10.18865/ed.27.2.117