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The Long Road to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: SHREY DEEPRANJAN Today, healthcare institutions acknowledge forces like structural racism as drivers of negative health outcomes—but effectively addressing racism inside of those institutions still has a long way to go.

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Improving AAPI Health with Better Data

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Urja Bhatt on unsplash.com Recently, a colleague asked me to identify my race. Presented with the standard options for race (White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian), I’ve always selected Asian. “Oh!” She was collecting diversity information and needed to fill in the field. I shrugged.

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Diaspora Philanthropy 3.0

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In America, Indian Americans are now recognized as the wealthiest ethnic group in the country with growing political influence. There are an estimated 30 million people of Indian origin living around the world, including 5 million in the United States alone. Its members lead major companies such as Google, Microsoft, Adobe, YouTube, and IBM.

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Gen X Faces Heightened Cancer Risk

NonProfit Quarterly

Generational Cancer Risk According to Race/Ethnicity The increased rates of cancer among Gen X also reflect general disparities in cancer diagnoses by race and ethnicity. The latter could offer some positive news, as early cancer diagnosis improves health outcomes, quality of life, and a person’s likelihood of remission.

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Rest: A Middle Finger to Oppression, a Road Map to Justice by Shawn Ginwright

NonProfit Quarterly

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health” and was adapted from The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn A. Rest and race are intertwined, and it all boils down to who has the right to rest and under what conditions rest and leisure should be granted.

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Walking Through Truth: Indigenous Wisdom and Community Health Equity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, the creation of borders that have been imposed upon tribal nations has led to a tremendous loss of land, natural resources, culture, food systems, language, economies, and a thousand generations of traditional knowledge. What’s In a Name?

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Achieving Health Equity: Shared Stewardship and the Vital Conditions Framework

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

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