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Respect for Communities in Health Justice
Charlene Galarneau1,2,3, Patrick T Smith4
1HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, BOSTON, MA, USA.
Abstract:
Health justice seeks, both conceptually and in practice, to strengthen community engagement and empowerment as an integral means of addressing health disparities. In this essay, we explore the nature of communities and their roles in health care/public health. We propose that an ethical principle of respect for communities is a requisite part of health justice. It is this respect for communities that ethically grounds health justice's calls for greater community engagement and empowerment. Conceptions of health justice, we claim, will gain ethical power and coherence as this principle is more clearly recognized and further developed.
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