Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA, Philadelphia, USA.
The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone Health Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA.
J Med Syst. 2022 Feb 12;46(3):17. doi: 10.1007/s10916-022-01803-5.
As the long-standing and ubiquitous racial inequities of the United States reached national attention, the public health community has witnessed the rise of "health equity tourism". This phenomenon is the process of previously unengaged investigators pivoting into health equity research without developing the necessary scientific expertise for high-quality work. In this essay, we define the phenomenon and provide an explanation of the antecedent conditions that facilitated its development. We also describe the consequences of health equity tourism - namely, recapitulating systems of inequity within the academy and the dilution of a landscape carefully curated by scholars who have demonstrated sustained commitments to equity research as a primary scientific discipline and praxis. Lastly, we provide a set of principles that can guide novice equity researchers to becoming community members rather than mere tourists of health equity.
随着美国长期存在且普遍存在的种族不平等现象引起了全国的关注，公共卫生界见证了“健康公平旅游”的兴起。这种现象是指以前没有参与健康公平研究的研究人员在没有发展出高质量工作所需的必要科学专业知识的情况下转向健康公平研究的过程。在本文中，我们定义了这一现象，并解释了促成其发展的前提条件。我们还描述了健康公平旅游的后果——即在学术界中重新出现不平等制度，以及那些一直致力于将公平研究作为主要科学学科和实践的学者精心策划的领域被稀释。最后，我们提供了一系列原则，可以指导新手公平研究人员成为社区成员，而不仅仅是健康公平的游客。
