Rita Issa – författare

Resistance, activism, and social movements related to health have been commonplace throughout history. Yet it is easy to overlook the impact that agitation, opposition, and subversion have had on health and wellbeing. Contrary to popular belief, many breakthroughs in health and healthcare--from improvements in sanitation and access to birth control, to the ways in which research is conducted--have been the result of grassroots organizing, direct action, and community-led efforts that exerted pressure on those who wield power and control. This volume offers a global exploration of resistance, activism, and social movements related to health, offering a critical perspective on efforts to pursue and realize health justice. Bringing together an interdisciplinary cast of contributors, the volume illustrates the many ways in which acts of resistance interact with, undermine, promote, and sustain health, and the ways in which health can also be mobilized as a form of resistance. From distinct geographical locations emerge rich, and often personal, experiences that cover several pressing health issues, including Indigenous resistance, reproductive justice, disability, migrant rights, climate activism, the impacts of capitalism and intellectual property, access to healthcare, and medical resistance to institutional and state violence.Resistance, Activism, and Health is a guide for those seeking to better understand the role of resistance and activism as practices and commitments to protect and promote health; to identify, disrupt, and dismantle health-harming systems; and to imagine and enact new communities of care, all while amplifying the voices of people fighting for the realization of health justice worldwide. Together, the contributions to this volume demonstrate that a healthier, collective future is possible, and is being built with each passing day, by those who have dared to imagine it.

Resistance, activism, and social movements related to health have been commonplace throughout history. Yet it is easy to overlook the impact that agitation, opposition, and subversion have had on health and wellbeing. Contrary to popular belief, many breakthroughs in health and healthcare--from improvements in sanitation and access to birth control, to the ways in which research is conducted--have been the result of grassroots organizing, direct action, and community-led efforts that exerted pressure on those who wield power and control. This volume offers a global exploration of resistance, activism, and social movements related to health, offering a critical perspective on efforts to pursue and realize health justice. Bringing together an interdisciplinary cast of contributors, the volume illustrates the many ways in which acts of resistance interact with, undermine, promote, and sustain health, and the ways in which health can also be mobilized as a form of resistance. From distinct geographical locations emerge rich, and often personal, experiences that cover several pressing health issues, including Indigenous resistance, reproductive justice, disability, migrant rights, climate activism, the impacts of capitalism and intellectual property, access to healthcare, and medical resistance to institutional and state violence.Resistance, Activism, and Health is a guide for those seeking to better understand the role of resistance and activism as practices and commitments to protect and promote health; to identify, disrupt, and dismantle health-harming systems; and to imagine and enact new communities of care, all while amplifying the voices of people fighting for the realization of health justice worldwide. Together, the contributions to this volume demonstrate that a healthier, collective future is possible, and is being built with each passing day, by those who have dared to imagine it.

This book helps to recognize the rights of refugees and provides a framework to identify and approach health needs, from basic elements like service mapping and initial interventions to more complex elements of ongoing healthcare and support and broader topics such as migration public health, migration policy and health systems. Beyond biomedical frameworks, it draws on socio-ecological models to inform assessments and integrated models of care to improve health and health equity. Set out in three comprehensive sections: public health theory (Part 1), applied public health (Part 2), and clinical approaches (Part 3), this book draws on multiple disciplines and insights from humanitarians, academics, policy experts, and clinicians from diverse contexts, with expertise in forced migration, to create an accessible reference tool to inform healthcare professionals’ interactions with forcibly displaced individuals and populations in all contexts for both high and low resource countries. Apart from providing information across the spectrum of health issues, clinical specialties and global contexts, it discusses associated areas, including human rights and law, public health, medical anthropology and cultural awareness.Key Features: Bridges the gap between existing academic literature on refugee health and guidelines for health management in humanitarian emergencies Helps to develop an integrated approach to healthcare provision, allowing healthcare professionals and humanitarians to adapt their specialist knowledge for use in forced migration contexts and with refugees. Recognizes the complex and interconnected needs in displacement scenarios and identifies holistic and systems-based approaches. Covers public health theory, applied public health and clinical aspects of forced migration.

This book helps to recognize the rights of refugees and provides a framework to identify and approach health needs, from basic elements like service mapping and initial interventions to more complex elements of ongoing healthcare and support and broader topics such as migration public health, migration policy and health systems. Beyond biomedical frameworks, it draws on socio-ecological models to inform assessments and integrated models of care to improve health and health equity. Set out in three comprehensive sections: public health theory (Part 1), applied public health (Part 2), and clinical approaches (Part 3), this book draws on multiple disciplines and insights from humanitarians, academics, policy experts, and clinicians from diverse contexts, with expertise in forced migration, to create an accessible reference tool to inform healthcare professionals’ interactions with forcibly displaced individuals and populations in all contexts for both high and low resource countries. Apart from providing information across the spectrum of health issues, clinical specialties and global contexts, it discusses associated areas, including human rights and law, public health, medical anthropology and cultural awareness.Key Features: Bridges the gap between existing academic literature on refugee health and guidelines for health management in humanitarian emergencies Helps to develop an integrated approach to healthcare provision, allowing healthcare professionals and humanitarians to adapt their specialist knowledge for use in forced migration contexts and with refugees. Recognizes the complex and interconnected needs in displacement scenarios and identifies holistic and systems-based approaches. Covers public health theory, applied public health and clinical aspects of forced migration.