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Climate Change/economics , Cyclonic Storms/economics , Disasters/economics , Poverty , Racism , Social Justice , Vulnerable Populations , COVID-19/epidemiology , Climate Change/mortality , Cyclonic Storms/mortality , Disasters/statistics & numerical data , Goals , Humans , Louisiana/epidemiology , Neoplasms/epidemiology , Politics , Poverty/statistics & numerical data , Racism/economics , Racism/prevention & control , Racism/statistics & numerical data , Sanitation , Social Justice/economics , Social Justice/trends , Sustainable Development/economics , Sustainable Development/trends , Vulnerable Populations/statistics & numerical dataABSTRACT
In the midst of a global pandemic and movements for racial justice, there is an opportunity to (re)imagine an Asian Americanist psychology that can bring about a more just society. The authors describe the contours of an Asian Americanist psychology that is grounded in historical context, an intersectional analysis, and representational ethics while focusing on community strengths and structural change. The article concludes with calls to action for Asian American psychologists, other psychologists of color, and White psychologists to envision a new era that centers Asian Americans in the multiracial pursuit of social justice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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Asian/psychology , Psychology , Social Justice/trends , COVID-19/epidemiology , Female , Humans , Male , Pandemics , Racism , XenophobiaABSTRACT
This past year brought the deadliest pandemic of our time and a huge social awakening and movement for racial justice. It became clear to me in late spring that I needed to learn more about structural racism, White supremacy, racial healthcare disparities, unconscious bias, and my own prejudices that govern my attitudes, values, behaviors, and decisions as a nurse leader, faculty member, board member, and a human being. To that end, I began to read, watch, and listen to both scholarly and lay journals and media that provide historical and current empirical accounts and studies of how racism and White supremacy have dominated our society, organizations, and communities in the United States for hundreds of years.
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Friends/psychology , Racism/psychology , Social Justice/standards , Cultural Diversity , Humans , Pandemics , Social Justice/trendsSubject(s)
Reproductive Techniques , Social Justice , Brazil/epidemiology , Epidemics , Female , Health Services Accessibility/economics , Health Services Accessibility/ethics , Health Services Accessibility/legislation & jurisprudence , Health Status Disparities , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Insurance, Health/economics , Insurance, Health/ethics , Insurance, Health/legislation & jurisprudence , Legislation as Topic/trends , Male , Pregnancy , Reproductive Techniques/economics , Reproductive Techniques/ethics , Reproductive Techniques/legislation & jurisprudence , Risk Factors , Social Justice/ethics , Social Justice/legislation & jurisprudence , Social Justice/trends , Socioeconomic FactorsABSTRACT
The striking imbalance between disease incidence and mortality among minorities across health conditions, including coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) highlights their under-inclusion in research. Here, we propose actions that can be adopted by the biomedical scientific community to address long-standing ethical and scientific barriers to equitable representation of diverse populations in research.
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COVID-19/epidemiology , Epidemiologic Research Design , Black or African American , Hispanic or Latino , Humans , Incidence , Mortality , Research , SARS-CoV-2 , Social Justice/trends , American Indian or Alaska NativeSubject(s)
Biomedical Research , COVID-19/epidemiology , Cultural Diversity , Health Occupations , Workforce , Biomedical Research/standards , Biomedical Research/statistics & numerical data , Biomedical Research/trends , Career Mobility , Health Occupations/standards , Health Occupations/statistics & numerical data , Health Occupations/trends , Health Services Needs and Demand , Humans , Pandemics , SARS-CoV-2/physiology , Social Justice/standards , Social Justice/trends , Socioeconomic Factors , Workforce/standardsSubject(s)
Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Delivery of Health Care/trends , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Telemedicine/trends , Artificial Intelligence , Betacoronavirus/pathogenicity , COVID-19 , COVID-19 Vaccines , Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control , Coronavirus Infections/psychology , Coronavirus Infections/virology , Democracy , Humans , Pandemics/prevention & control , Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control , Pneumonia, Viral/psychology , Pneumonia, Viral/virology , Psychological Distance , SARS-CoV-2 , Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted , Social Justice/trends , Viral Vaccines/administration & dosage , Viral Vaccines/biosynthesisABSTRACT
Health futures are not preordained, nor are they entirely predictable by extrapolation from the past. This is particularly relevant in an era of unprecedented uncertainties converging from the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple zoonotic outbreaks for the past two decades, and the climate crisis currently unfolding. Moreover, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services cautioned in 2019 that around one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. Human existence and medical innovations are closely intertwined with preservation and sustainability of biodiversity. COVID-19 is a "dry run" for future ecological crises in the 21st century. We need new frames and ways of conceptualizing planetary health, biodiversity futures, and their principled governance post-COVID-19. In this article, I propose "One Nature" as a critically informed planetary health governance frame, and outline its key conceptual pillars. One Nature aims to transcend the socially constructed binaries between humans versus nature, humans versus nonhuman animals or inanimate objects in nature, among other false binaries, and thus, envisions nature as an overlapping, interdependent, and co-constitutive continuum among life forms and ecosystems. One Nature also recognizes animal sentience and agency of nonhuman animals. In doing so, the One Nature governance frame places a firm emphasis on the internal levers of social change and the human values essential to cultivate collective action to curb unchecked extraction of nature that placed human societies in harm's way for future health crises. One Nature is a governance frame and reflexive value system that can be transformative to correct the astigmatism we have long suffered, from the ways in which we have conceived, enacted on, and extracted the natural systems over the centuries. All in all, One Nature supports planetary health and biodiversity through a new vocabulary and post-anthropocentric critical governance lens, and shall help formulate progressive policies to prevent zoonotic outbreaks and future ecological crises.
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Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Delivery of Health Care/trends , Global Health/trends , Pandemics/prevention & control , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Telemedicine/trends , Zoonoses/prevention & control , Animals , Betacoronavirus/pathogenicity , Biodiversity , COVID-19 , Coronavirus Infections/transmission , Coronavirus Infections/virology , Ecosystem , Global Health/ethics , Humans , Pneumonia, Viral/transmission , Pneumonia, Viral/virology , Politics , SARS-CoV-2 , Social Justice/trends , Social Theory , Terminology as TopicABSTRACT
Solidarity in the general sense means unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest; or mutual support within a group. There are different ways of standing in solidarity in different kinds of literatures. One of the most important ways is to advocate. Advocacy is a win-win strategy and a process of supporting and enabling people to express their views and concerns. In the end, I think sharing different types of solidarity can be one of the drivers that stimulate the solidarity itself, and I call on everyone to contribute to this sharing. I hope that this solidarity, which began in the world with the beginning of COVID-19, will not end with its end and will last forever because our world needs coexistence. This may be the only gift to the world from COVID-19.