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White Supremacy and the Core Functions of Public Health

American journal of public health (1971), 2021-05, Vol.111 (5), p.815-819 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright American Public Health Association May 2021 ;American Public Health Association 2021 2021 ;ISSN: 0090-0036 ;EISSN: 1541-0048 ;DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306137 ;PMID: 33826395

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Title:
White Supremacy and the Core Functions of Public Health
Author: Alang, Sirry ; Hardeman, Rachel ; Karbeah, J'Mag ; Akosionu, Odichinma ; McGuire, Cydney ; Abdi, Hamdi ; McAlpine, Donna
Subjects: Aggression ; Black people ; Certification ; Communication ; Community ; Community-Institutional Relations ; Constellations ; Cooperative Behavior ; Development policy ; Discrimination ; Dominance ; Educational programs ; Equity ; Floyd, George ; Health disparities ; Health Education - organization & administration ; Health services ; Health surveillance ; Hegemony ; Humans ; Imprisonment ; Intimidation ; Mass incarceration ; Medical personnel ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Opinions, Ideas, & Practice ; Organizations ; Other Race/Ethnicity ; Performance evaluation ; Performance measurement ; Police ; Police brutality ; Policy ; Policy making ; Public Health ; Public health education ; Public Health Practice ; Race ; Racial profiling ; Racism ; Sex crimes ; Sexual assault ; Statutes ; Surveillance ; Systemic racism ; Voice communication ; White supremacy
Is Part Of: American journal of public health (1971), 2021-05, Vol.111 (5), p.815-819
Description: Global outrage followed the murder of George Floyd by now former Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officers. The outrage was targeted at police brutality-police conduct that dehumanizes through the use of physical, emotional, or sexual violence as well as verbal and psychological intimidation, regardless of conscious intent-one of the oldest forms of structural racism.1 In decrying police brutality, many public health organizations issued statements declaring racism a public health crisis, with promises of change. However, change is stymied if we do not critically evaluate how the discipline (scholarship, conceptual frameworks, methodologies), organizations (governmental, nonprofit, and private institutions that seek to promote population health), and public health professionals (in academia or practice) contribute to structural racism that is manifested in police brutality, among many other outcomes."Structural racism" here refers to policies and practices, in a constellation of institutions, that confer advantages on people considered White and ideologies that maintain and defend these advantages, while simultaneously oppressing other racialized groups.2 Structural racism is sustained through White supremacy: the glossary of conditions, practices, and ideologies that underscore the hegemony of whiteness and White political, social, cultural, and economic domination.3,4 White supremacy makes it possible for structural racism to reproduce over time, albeit with different mechanisms, from the enslavement of Black people to mass incarceration. Consideration of White supremacy makes visible that structural racism is "White controlled,"4 and without examining the former, we will not dismantle the latter in public health.Public health is organized in a framework of three core functions- assessment, policy development, and assurance-and 10 essential public health services (EPHSs). The framework is meant to help public health "speak with one voice" about what public health is and what it aspires to do.5 This framework has been immensely influential. Accreditation of public health departments and educational programs partially relies on EPHSs and is included in some state statutes. The EPHSs are taught in our classrooms, are used for performance measurement and evaluation, and have helped to communicate to the public and policymakers what public health is about.
Publisher: United States: American Public Health Association
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0090-0036
EISSN: 1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306137
PMID: 33826395
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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White Supremacy and the Core Functions of Public Health

Copyright American Public Health Association May 2021 ;American Public Health Association 2021 2021 ;ISSN: 0090-0036 ;EISSN: 1541-0048 ;DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306137 ;PMID: 33826395

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