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"Power and Health" examines the role of power in our society and how it can be reshaped to reshape our health.
"Power and Health" examines the role of power in our society and how it can be reshaped through community, belonging and inclusion in order to reshape our health.
Racism undergirds the inequities we see in nearly every major measure of health status we have. But there are immediate steps we can take toward transformative solidarity to begin changing our systems and institutions.
There are no easy decisions for leaders to make when it comes to handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Both principle and concern about risk are informing collective decision-making, but privilege also underlies many such deliberations.
While fighting their own respiratory health battles, environmental justice advocates are organizing communities to hold the mammoth oil and gas industry accountable for its impact on Southern California's most vulnerable populations.
While Los Angeles has the reputation of being a city of dreams, its urban landscape has become a nightmare for Black and Brown residents. Learn how South L.A. has developed in a way that's detrimental to its residents and what's being done about it.
Public health workers and grassroots organizers are intentionally building collective power across issues and communities for health equity.
Farmworkers in 2020 have been deemed essential workers. Yet, the chronic, disabling, deadly and depressing circumstances they endure are not part of the imagery that goes along with the problematic trope of essential workers as superheroes.
For middle-class parents of disabled children, good income and great insurance are still not enough to cover the vast holes in U.S. healthcare.
In Santa Ana, a majority Mexican and renting population is heavily affected by pandemic. Advocates argue that the need to address the community’s lack of affordable housing and green space, crucial public health issues even before coronavirus, is now even more urgent.
Ruth Andrade was always told that confronting oil companies about the health problems she saw in her community (like nosebleeds, headaches, and even miscarriages and cancer) was too difficult to do by herself, so she decided to simply not go it alone. Years later, her work is finally paying off.
Meet the 10 experts examining health inequities through the lens of race, wealth and power in the documentary "Power & Health."
