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  • Public Health
  • Health Law
  • Social Justice

Background:

  • Health inequities persist despite advances in healthcare and public health.
  • Existing frameworks often fail to address the root causes of health disparities.
  • Community-led initiatives are crucial for driving transformational change.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define health justice as both a movement and a scholarly framework.
  • To highlight the social ethic of care inherent in health justice.
  • To identify subordination as the primary driver of health inequities.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of health justice principles.
  • Review of community-led movement strategies.
  • Examination of health law scholarship through a social justice lens.

Main Results:

  • Health justice integrates community power-building with transformational change.
  • It reframes the relationship between healthcare, public health, and social determinants.
  • Subordination is identified as the fundamental cause of health inequities.

Conclusions:

  • Health justice offers a robust framework for understanding and addressing health disparities.
  • A social ethic of care is central to achieving health equity.
  • Transformational change requires confronting and dismantling systems of subordination.