A Call to Service: Social Justice Is a Public Health Issue

Unless we build bridges between our clinical work with patients and the public health mission that Virchow prescribed for us, we are doomed to futility in our efforts to help our patients: https://t.co/Q71lqfWArF

One group calculated that equalizing the mortality rates of whites and African-Americans would have averted 686,202 deaths between 1991 and 2000, whereas medical advances over the same period averted only 176,633 deaths: https://t.co/B9YfknX2Od #healthequ

RT @JournalofEthics: Down for the cause: Should social justice efforts be considered a public health issue? More on this here: https://t.co…

Down for the cause: Should social justice efforts be considered a public health issue? More on this here: https://t.co/2rAuiAg88b