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Why Add "Abolition" to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Social Care Framework?
Laura M Gottlieb1, Stacy Tessler Lindau2, Monica E Peek3
1Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Abstract:
Abundant evidence demonstrates that enduring, endemic racism plays an important role in determining patient health. This commentary reviews a patient case about disease self-management and subsequent health outcomes that are shaped by social and economic circumstances. We analyze the case using a framework for social care developed in 2019 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). We then propose that the NASEM framework be adapted by adding the category abolition, which could make the other social care practices transformative for historically marginalized populations.