#Health is inherently political.
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#Health is inherently political. Addressing the root causes, causes-of-causes, of illness and health calls for awareness and interventions on #political #determinants of planetary health. But how well are #physicians, medical #scientists, #clinical decision-makers prepared to respond to the pressing political determinants of health in the contemporary moment?
This article in #JAMA from 2023 is relevant today with authoritarian regimes and turns in global governance.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2806421
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#Health is inherently political. Addressing the root causes, causes-of-causes, of illness and health calls for awareness and interventions on #political #determinants of planetary health. But how well are #physicians, medical #scientists, #clinical decision-makers prepared to respond to the pressing political determinants of health in the contemporary moment?
This article in #JAMA from 2023 is relevant today with authoritarian regimes and turns in global governance.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2806421
"We should prepare physicians to embrace care as a practice that extends well beyond the clinic and that necessarily hinges on power and policy—and thus on political organizing and struggle.
The practice of #medicine — let alone #publichealth — is intrinsically political. To deny this is itself a political act.
Because physicians typically have limited personal stakes in#labor #politics beyond our training years, many are more likely to accommodate exploitation than to protest it."
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