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卫生公平 and Human Flourishing in Memphis

正规博彩十大网站排名学院 was recently awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will be used over the next three years to enable the college to bring health equity 教育 to community partners in Memphis. Our goal is to help our partners find ways to collaborate to address the disparities that impair human health and flourishing and to see ways to build a culture of equity.

What do we mean by health and human flourishing?

Health and human flourishing are products of the social relationships that shape us as individuals and in communities. Health and well-being grow in egalitarian communities, and disparities take root amidst social inequalities. We can measure the justice of a society in the bodies of its people. The social forces that shape health and well-being include transportation, 教育, 住房和邻里条件, 进入绿色空间和艺术, 就业和收入稳定, 食物, 社会支持, 宗教归属, 以及获得医疗保健服务的机会. 迁移, 全球化, 贫困, 领土, and cultural are also powerful drivers of health and well-being.

Because the root challenge for building health equity is social inequality, 而不是缺乏获得药物的途径, solutions can only emerge when social forces align to offer fair chances for all people to flourish. Understanding where disparities grow and how to uproot them requires collaboration from all sectors of society. We plan to work especially with governmental, 教育, 慈善, 还有医疗机构.