We'll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity
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We'll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity
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Overview
Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award from the Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle Passage
Racism in the US health care system has been deliberately undermining Black health care professionals and exacerbating health disparities among Black Americans for centuries. These health disparities only became a mainstream issue on the agenda of US health leaders and policy makers because a group of health professions schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities banded together to fight for health equity. We'll Fight It Out Here tells the story of how the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS) was founded by this coalition and the hard-won influence it built in American politics and health care. David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan, former secretary of health & human services, detail how the struggle for equity has been fought in the field of health care, where bias and disparities continue to be volatile national issues.
Chanoff and Sullivan outline the history of Black health care, from pre-Emancipation to today, centering on the work of AMHPS, which brought to light health care inequities in 1983 and precipitated virtually all minority health care legislation since then. Based on extensive research in the literature, as well as more than seventy interviews with the people central to this fight for legislative and policy change, We'll Fight It Out Here is the important story of a vital coalition movement, virtually unknown until now, that changed the national understanding of health inequities.
The work of this coalition of Black health schools continues, both in supporting the training of more doctors and health professionals from minority backgrounds and in advancing issues related to health equity. By highlighting these endeavors, We'll Fight It Out Here brings attention to a pivotal group in the history of the health equity movement and provides a road map of practical mechanisms that can be used to advance it.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421450445 |
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| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Publication date: | 07/02/2024 |
| Pages: | 280 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.71(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Louis W. Sullivan (ATLANTA, GA) is a former secretary of HHS and the founding dean and president emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine.
Daniel E. Dawes is the director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine who has been at the forefront of recent major federal health policy negotiations in the United States. The cofounder of the Health Equity Leadership and Exchange Network (HELEN), he is the author of 150 Years of ObamaCare.
Table of Contents
ForewordPrefaceTimelineChapter 1. The Nadir Chapter 2. The Response Chapter 3. Abraham Flexner and the Black Medical Schools Chapter 4. AMHPS: The Founding Chapter 5. The Heckler Report Chapter 6. Landmark Legislation Chapter 7. AMHPS and the Secretary Chapter 8. The Office of Minority Health Chapter 9. The Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities Chapter 10. A National Institute Chapter 11. A Common Mission Afterword Acknowledgments Notes IndexWhat People are Saying About This
An amazing story of grit, determination, and perseverance to advance Black and minority-serving health institutions. To have a more just and equitable nation, more attention and support must be given to the cherished institutions that compose the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools.
We'll Fight It Out Here is a David and Goliath legislative story of how a small and dedicated group of health professionals battled to eliminate health disparities and push through Congress legislation that opened up first-rate medical care to African Americans. It is a historical gem of how participants in the legislative process in Washington can be persuaded to do the right thing for those in greatest need.
We'll Fight It Out Here is a David and Goliath legislative story of how a small and dedicated group of health professionals battled to eliminate health disparities and push through Congress legislation that opened up first-rate medical care to African Americans. It is an historical gem of how the legislative process in Washington can be persuaded to do the right thing for those in greatest need.
This inspiring, engaging, and informative book describes not only the systemic barriers African Americans face but also the extraordinary agency Black leaders have demonstrated in overcoming some of these obstacles. At a time when health disparities have gained national attention, this is a story of solutions and hope, beautifully told.
This is an essential work on American medical history and its place in the fight for racial justice. The story is dramatic and lucid. The book should be mandatory reading for college courses and for anyone interested in America's ongoing search for racial equality. It represents a milestone in writing on medical history and should be part of the core knowledge of all those who care about equitable and human health care.
This inspiring, engaging, and informative book describes not only the systemic barriers African Americans face but also the extraordinary agency Black leaders have demonstrated in overcoming some of these obstacles. At a time when health disparities have gained national attention, this is a story of solutions and hope, beautifully told.—Kenneth M. Ludmerer, MD, Washington University in St. Louis, author of Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine
This is an essential work on American medical history and its place in the fight for racial justice. The story is dramatic and lucid. The book should be mandatory reading for college courses and for anyone interested in America's ongoing search for racial equality. It represents a milestone in writing on medical history and should be part of the core knowledge of all those who care about equitable and human health care.—Augustus A. White III, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, author of Seeing Patients: A Surgeon's Story of Race and Medical Bias
An amazing story of grit, determination, and perseverance to advance Black and minority-serving health institutions. To have a more just and equitable nation, more attention and support must be given to the cherished institutions that compose the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools.—Wayne J. Riley, MD, MPH, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
We'll Fight It Out Here is a David and Goliath legislative story of how a small and dedicated group of health professionals battled to eliminate health disparities and push through Congress legislation that opened up first-rate medical care to African Americans. It is a historical gem of how participants in the legislative process in Washington can be persuaded to do the right thing for those in greatest need.—Joseph A. Califano Jr., former US Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
This is an essential work on American medical history and its place in the fight for racial justice. The story is dramatic and lucid. The book should be mandatory reading for college courses and for anyone interested in America's ongoing search for racial equality. It represents a milestone in the writing on medical history and should be part of the core knowledge of all those who care about equitable and human healthcare.