LET’S TALK - REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY - LET’S TALK

At the heart of this process is the empowerment of communities, their ownership and control of their own endeavours and destinies.”1(p3) “The poor health of the poor, the social “Power, after all, is the heart of the gradient in health within countries, and the matter—and the science of health marked health inequities between countries inequities can no more shy away from are caused by the unequal. [...] 3 LET’S TALK: REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY PUBLIC HEALTH MUST UNDERSTAND POWER TO ACHIEVE HEALTH EQUITY POWER IS THE ABILITY TO ACHIEVE PURPOSE18 individuals and communities to take control over Although power can have negative connotations their lives and environments; is committed to because it can be thought of as domination or power building a membership base and is accountabl. [...] For example, in the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, colonial power is referenced repeatedly, and equally the power of sexism and violence that has resulted from colonial power.50 Tying the concepts of power, self-determination and decolonization to Indigenous public health programming within an urban environment, Dr. [...] 8 LET’S TALK: REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY TABLE 1: THE THREE FACES OF POWER AND WAYS TO SHIFT POWER TO COMMUNITY25 FACE OF DESCRIPTION STRATEGIES THAT EXAMPLES OF ACTIONS THAT EXAMPLES OF ACTIONS THAT POWER CAN BE USED TO BUILD COMMUNITY POWER LIMIT THE POWER OF THOSE REDISTRIBUTE POWER THAT OBSTRUCT PROGRESS TOWARD EQUITY Exercising influence in Organizing people • Advocating fo. [...] An important effect psyche of almost all people in society, from policy- of this is the constraining of responsibility and makers to practitioners to even the people harmed by leadership for health equity to the health sector, these ideas and resulting policies.