Primary health care as a platform for addressing racial discrimination to “leave no one behind” and reduce health inequities

The health inequities faced by populations experiencing racial discrimination, including indigenous peoples and people of African descent, Roma, and other ethnic minorities, are an issue of global concern. Health systems have an important role to play in tackling these health inequities. Health syst...

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Autores principales: Hone, Thomas, Gomez, Susana, Rao, Mala, Ferreira, Andrêa, Barkley, Shannon, Swift Koller, Theadora
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9628171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324144
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01779-1
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author Hone, Thomas
Gomez, Susana
Rao, Mala
Ferreira, Andrêa
Barkley, Shannon
Swift Koller, Theadora
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description The health inequities faced by populations experiencing racial discrimination, including indigenous peoples and people of African descent, Roma, and other ethnic minorities, are an issue of global concern. Health systems have an important role to play in tackling these health inequities. Health systems based on comprehensive Primary Health Care (PHC) are best placed to tackle health inequities because PHC encompasses a whole-of-society approach to health. PHC includes actions to address the wider social determinants of health, multisectoral policy and action, intercultural and integrated healthcare services, community empowerment, and a focus on addressing health inequities. PHC can also serve as a platform for introducing specific actions to tackle racial discrimination and can act to drive wider societal change for tackling racial and ethnic health inequities.
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spelling pubmed-96281712022-11-02 Primary health care as a platform for addressing racial discrimination to “leave no one behind” and reduce health inequities Hone, Thomas Gomez, Susana Rao, Mala Ferreira, Andrêa Barkley, Shannon Swift Koller, Theadora Int J Equity Health Comment The health inequities faced by populations experiencing racial discrimination, including indigenous peoples and people of African descent, Roma, and other ethnic minorities, are an issue of global concern. Health systems have an important role to play in tackling these health inequities. Health systems based on comprehensive Primary Health Care (PHC) are best placed to tackle health inequities because PHC encompasses a whole-of-society approach to health. PHC includes actions to address the wider social determinants of health, multisectoral policy and action, intercultural and integrated healthcare services, community empowerment, and a focus on addressing health inequities. PHC can also serve as a platform for introducing specific actions to tackle racial discrimination and can act to drive wider societal change for tackling racial and ethnic health inequities. BioMed Central 2022-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9628171/ /pubmed/36324144 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01779-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Rao, Mala
Ferreira, Andrêa
Barkley, Shannon
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9628171/
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