Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy, and Structural Change

Given the national reckoning around structural inequity, racism, and intractable health inequalities, there is an unrequited demand among faculty and scholars who teach and write about health equity and social justice for texts that go beyond a discussion of the social determinants of health and access to care to provide analysis that offers a structural and legal lens for understanding entrenched health inequity in the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic has only made the need for this approach more compelling and urgent. Addressing that need, authors Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler and Joel Teitelbaum have built upon and expanded their first edition with Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy and Structural Change, Second Edition. This unparalleled new edition explores the historical, structural, and legal underpinnings of racial, ethnic, gender-based, and ableist inequities in health, and provides a framework for students to consider how and why health inequity is tied to the ways that laws are structured and enforced. Additionally, it offers analysis of potential solutions and posits how law may be used as a tool to remedy health injustice. Written for a wide, interdisciplinary audience of students and scholars in public health, medicine, and law, as well as other health professions, this accessible text discusses both the systems and policies that influence health and explores opportunities to advocate for legal and policy change by public health practitioners and policymakers, physicians, health care professionals, lawyers, and lay people. Key Features: - Contextualizes health justice through examination of theoretical underpinnings and historical social justice movements - Provides analysis of how law and policy structure injustices that harm health and drive health inequities - Includes chapters on key systems and policies that drive health injustice - e.g., inequities in socioeconomic status, place-based inequities, the carceral state - and populations whose health is harmed - People of Color, immigrants, women, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities - Provides discussion and analysis of current legal and policy proposals and of possible options for the future - Offers learning objectives and key terms in each chapter. Discussion questions/answers for each chapter are available to faculty adopting the text - Includes Navigate eBook access (with the printed text) for convenient online or offline reading of the text from a computer, tablet, or smart phone.

Author: Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, Joel B. Teitelbaum
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Published: 07/01/2022
Pages: 325
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781284248142

About the Author
Tobin-Tyler, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA, is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School and of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. She is Co-Director of the Health Systems Science courses at the Alpert Medical School. She teaches, writes and consults in the areas of health policy, health equity and public health law and ethics. Her research focuses on the role of law and policy in the social determinants of health, community-based and health system interventions that address health disparities, and interprofessional medical-legal education. Professor Tobin-Tyler is a national expert in the development of medical-legal partnerships, which integrate medicine, public health and legal services to identify, address and prevent health-harming social and legal needs of patients, clinics and populations. She is senior editor and a contributor to the first textbook on the topic, Poverty, Health and Law: Readings and Cases for Medical-Legal Partnership(Carolina Academic Press, 2011). In 2013, she was awarded the Distinguished Advocate award by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership for her work in promoting the medical-legal partnership model and for developing interprofessional medical-legal education. In 2014, Professor Tobin-Tyler was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Public Health Law Education Faculty Fellow. She has served on a number of boards and advisory councils including the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership board, the National Advisory Council for the Accelerating Interprofessional Community-Based Education and Practice Initiative, and the National Advisory Council for the Learning Collaborative on Health Equity and Young Children.Yearby, Ruqaiijah: - Ruqaiijah Yearby, JD, MPH, is a full professor of law, member of the Center for Health Law Studies, and member of the William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law at Saint Louis University School of Law. She is also co-founder and Executive Director of Saint Louis University's Institute for Healing Justice and Equity. She teaches, writes, and consults in the areas of health disparities, nursing homes, health justice, health equity, racial equity tools, bioethics, and health policy. She has served as an Instructor for the Harvard Medical School, Center for Bioethics, a Co-Principal Investigator for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant entitled, "Are Cities and Counties Ready to Use Racial Equity Tools to Influence Policy?", and a Research Consultant and Board Member for the Investigating Conceptions of Health Equity and Barriers to Making Health a Shared Value, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant. Professor Yearby is a specialist in the social determinants of health, employment health disparities, racial disparities in health care, the political economy of health care, and justice in medical research. Due to her expertise in justice and medical research, she presented her work at the 2015 Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference in Oxford, England and at the October 2020 meeting of the U.S. Department of HEalth and Human Services Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections. Using empirical data, her research on health disparities explores the ways in which inequities in society and the health care delivery system prevent minorities, women, and the economically disadvantaged from attaining equal access to quality health care. Her work has been cited in The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics (2007), Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2012), and The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics (2019). It has also been used in law, medical school, and social science classes at schools such as Harvard, NYU, Fordham, and the University of California Berkeley. She is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics and has served on the Health Equity Task Force for the Satcher Health Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. In 2016, the Mayor of the City of Cleveland issued a proclamation celebrating her appointment as Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity and Inclusiveness. That same year, she served as a member of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's Advisory Group on Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives.