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Medical experts say gun violence is a public health crisis By: Adina Genn April 14, 2021 Comments Off on Medical experts say gun violence is a public health crisis
A number of healthcare networks are joining Northwell Health in recognizing gun violence as a public health crisis. In a new interactive forum, they aim to bring about best practices to prevent firearm injury and death, and leave politics out of their discussions.
The forum is part of Northwell’s recently launched Gun Violence Prevention Learning Collaborative for Health Systems and Hospitals.
Joining the initiative are more than 300 representatives from CommonSpirit Health, University of Chicago Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Medical Center, and other hospitals and health systems. Representatives from these organizations include executives, clinical leaders, researchers and other health care work
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Why health care and gun violence are matters of racial justice
Apr 13, 2021 Trauma surgeon creates unique course to help policy students recognize racial disparities
For two decades, Assoc. Prof. Brian H. Williams has worked as a trauma surgeon in hospitals around the country. Along the way, he has become a passionate educator one who stresses the need to address health care inequities as a matter of racial justice.
“When you look at these, what do you see? Dots, colors, statistics,” Williams said during a virtual Harper Lecture on March 3, referring to maps of health disparities in Chicago. “When I look at this, I see how racial injustice manifests as health care injustice. I see how Black Chicagoans are suffering the most from gun violence, suffering from COVID infections and now, suffering from lack of vaccination uptake.”