How can we all work together to eliminate the avoidable injustices
that plague our health care system and society? Health is
determined by far more than a person's choices and behaviors.
Social and political conditions, economic forces, physical
environments, institutional policies, health care system features,
social relationships, risk behaviors, and genetic predispositions
all contribute to physical and mental well-being. In America and
around the world, many of these factors are derived from a
lingering history of unequal opportunities and unjust treatment for
people of color and other vulnerable communities. But they aren't
the only ones who suffer because of these disparities-everyone is
impacted by the factors that degrade health for the least
advantaged among us. In Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's
Problem? Dr. Lisa Cooper shows how we can work together to
eliminate the injustices that plague our health care system and
society. The book follows Cooper's journey from her childhood in
Liberia, West Africa, to her thirty-year career working first as a
clinician and then as a health equity researcher at Johns Hopkins
University. Drawing on her experiences, it explores how differences
in communication and the quality of relationships affect health
outcomes. Through her work as the founder and director of the Johns
Hopkins Center for Health Equity, it details the actions and
policies needed to reduce and eliminate the conditions that are
harming us all. Cooper reveals with compelling detail how health
disparities are crippling our health care system and society,
driving up health care costs, leading to adverse health outcomes
and ultimately an enormous burden of human suffering. Why Are
Health Disparities Everyone's Problem? demonstrates the ways in
which everyone's health is interconnected, both within communities
and across the globe. Cooper calls for a new kind of herd immunity,
when a sufficiently high proportion of people, across race and
social class, become immune to harmful social conditions through
"vaccination" with solidarity among groups and opportunities
created by institutional and societal practices and policies. By
acknowledging and acting upon that interconnectedness, she believes
everyone can help to create a healthier world. Features * Raises
readers' health care inequities literacy through an approachable
narrative with specific examples * Introduces the concept of "herd
immunity" as it applies to building communal awareness of systemic
injustices * Features sections that underscore key takeaways *
Includes contributions from the world's leading minds through their
research findings and quotations * Guides readers on what can be
done at an individual level as a patient, public health
professional, and community member * Includes inspiring stories of
effective health equity studies and practices around the world,
from Ghana's ADHINCRA Project addressing hypertension control to
Baltimore's BRIDGE Study for depression in African Americans and
the Maryland and Pennsylvania-based RICH LIFE Project for
hypertension, diabetes, and other medical conditions Johns Hopkins
Wavelengths In classrooms, field stations, and laboratories in
Baltimore and around the world, the Bloomberg Distinguished
Professors of Johns Hopkins University are opening the boundaries
of our understanding of many of the world's most complex
challenges. The Johns Hopkins Wavelengths book series brings
readers inside their stories, illustrating how their pioneering
discoveries benefit people in their neighborhoods and across the
globe in artificial intelligence, cancer research, food systems'
environmental impacts, health equity, science diplomacy, and other
critical arenas of study. Through these compelling narratives,
their insights will spark conversations from dorm rooms to dining
rooms to boardrooms.
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