Dr. Brian Smedley will serve as a panelist during a discussion entitled "Health Equity: Are We Making Progress? Through a Social Justice, Women's, Persons with Disabilities and LGBTQ Lens" at the American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting and Expo on Monday, October 29, 2012. Dr. Smedley will be discussing "Tackling Health Inequalities Through a Focus on Place: The Role of Residential Segregation."
America spends more than $2.5 trillion on health care. If we could eliminate health inequalities, America could save more than a $1 trillion in excessive health care expenditures and indirect costs. We've been spending our resources on the illness model, instead of investing our resources on the determinants of health - jobs, education, physically and environmentally safe neighborhoods - that have the potential to bring us closer to achieving health equity. To make progress, we must address the determinants of health, and eliminate discrimination of all forms - racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and income inequality - from the start. Because it is important to look at health equity through more than one lens, we have organized a panel to discuss health inequalities and health equity through a race/ethnicity and social/environmental justice lens, a women’s lens, a persons with disabilities lens, and a LGBTQ lens.
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