Medicalization of poverty:a call to action for America’s healthcare workforce
作者机构:Center for Diversity and Health EquityAmerican Academy of Family PhysiciansLeawoodKansasUSA
出 版 物:《Family Medicine and Community Health》 (家庭医学与社区卫生(英文))
年 卷 期:2022年第10卷第3期
页 面:39-42页
学科分类:02[经济学] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 020105[经济学-世界经济]
主 题:action healthcare outside
摘 要:As a social determinant of health,poverty has been medicalised in such a way that interventions to address it have fallen on the shoulders of healthcare systems and healthcare professionals to reduce health inequities as opposed to creating and investing in a strong social safety *** our current fee-for service model of healthcare delivery,the cost of delivering secondary or even tertiary interventions to mitigate the poor health effects of poverty in the clinic is much more costly than preventive measures taken by *** addition,this leads to increasing burnout among the healthcare workforce,which may ultimately result in a healthcare worker *** mitigate,physicians and other healthcare workers with power and privilege in communities systematically disenfranchised may take action by being outspoken on the development and implementation of policies known to result in health *** strong advocacy skills is essential to being an effective patient advocate in and outside of the exam room.