Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Health Educ Behav. 2023 Aug;50(4):473-476. doi: 10.1177/10901981231166572. Epub 2023 Apr 23.
Racism impedes the health of communities of color and, more recently, has been declared a public health crisis. Social uprisings in response to the police brutalities in the summer of 2020 have further pushed public health as a discipline to recognize racism as a public health issue. We argue that, as a discipline, we must challenge ourselves to move toward radical public health to achieve health equity. Radical public health requires future and current public health practitioners to discuss the root of health inequities, which we identify as racial capitalism. We (a) discuss racial capitalism and its intersection with public health and (b) critique current anti-racist pedagogy with recommendations on how to move forward. Future public health practitioners must acquaint themselves with racial capitalism and use it as a lens to see all public health problems if they are to dismantle structural racism that perpetuates health inequities.
种族主义阻碍了有色人种社区的健康，最近甚至被宣布为公共卫生危机。2020 年夏天，针对警察暴行的社会动荡进一步推动了公共卫生领域将种族主义视为公共卫生问题。我们认为，作为一个学科，我们必须挑战自己，走向激进的公共卫生，以实现健康公平。激进的公共卫生要求未来和当前的公共卫生从业者讨论健康不平等的根源，我们将其确定为种族资本主义。我们：（一）讨论种族资本主义及其与公共卫生的交叉；（二）批判当前的反种族主义教学法，并就如何推进提出建议。未来的公共卫生从业者如果要消除导致健康不平等的结构性种族主义，就必须熟悉种族资本主义，并将其作为一个视角来看待所有公共卫生问题。
