#health inequality

[bumblebeeappletree]

'We will work and we will fight for our fundamental rights' — From climate activism, to fighting gender & health inequality, here's what you should know about three women who were recognized by the Gates Foundation as Goalkeepers

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#gatesfoundation #activism #goalkeeper #Politics #News #NowThis

#now this news #now this #solarpunk #climate activism #gender inequality #health inequality #Gates Foundation #activists #activism #vanessa nakate #Uganda #climate justice #Zahra Joya #London #England #Rukhshana Media #Dr. Radhika Batra #Radhika Batra #Every Infant Matters #Africa #Vash Green Schools Project #afghanistan #new delhi #India #Youtube

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Balancing Chakras

In a recent magazine article a woman was explaining that she’d been struggling with life. A difficult pregnancy while already having a toddler, she’d been working freelance from home, when the little one slept. Then new baby came along and feeding was hard and she had to go back to work early because they were broke. Feeling overwhelmed, she couldn’t find or afford childcare, oh and then there…

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#chakra&039;s #Family #feminism #feminist #health inequality #injustice #meditation #political #poverty #self care #Self Improvement #wellness #wellness industry #women

[lower-me-down]

#marmot #health inequality #poverty #deprivation #childhood #uk #Youtube

[thoughtportal]

stop telling people to ‘just move’

#toot #toots #mastodon #human rights #systemic oppression #southern united states #United States #inequality #right to privacy #internet privacy #online privacy #medical privacy #privacy #LGBTQ #reproductive justice #reproductive freedom #reproductive rights #reproductive choice #reproductive health

[mysticalamity]

#tiktok #tik tok video #no justice no peace #black lives matter #health inequality

[brucewaynehater101]

Alright. Willis Todd being an abusive father to Jason is a trope often utilized. Comparing this version of him to Bruce's reactions to Red Hood is fantastic. Lots to analyze there.

However, I raise you. There needs to be more fanwork addressing the classism behind Willis Todd being characterized as an abusive alcoholic. In some version of canon, Willis Todd was a good dad in a shitty situation. He was poor, his wife (Catherine) was sick, and he had a newborn baby he needed to provide for. In this horrid situation, where he has no family to fall back on and no higher education to obtain a decent well-paying job, he tries to get quick money. He's desperate to keep both his wife and son alive.

Catherine turns to drugs because it's easier and cheaper to buy drugs than healthcare. The pain she experiences is debilitating, and she'd do anything to not feel pain for one godsdamned second. Unfortunately, this turns into an addiction.

This ultimately shapes the way that Jason views crime. Bruce, while he may be sympathetic to individuals who resort to crime to pay their bills, will not understand huddling in Crime Alley in the dead of winter as he debates whether to buy food or pay for heating. He won't understand the bitterness, hatred, pain, and resignation of never having enough money to survive as you get chewed up again and again.

If Jason's dad is just an abusive criminal, that not only perpetuates the notion that all criminals are evil, but it will shape how Jason views those who commit crime. Breaking the law doesn't make someone bad. There's plenty of reasons people commit crime, whether to survive, protect someone, or something else. The issue, especially in Gotham, is the system that perpetuates wealth inequality through bribes and unethical governmental practices.

Anyway, I think Jason's Red Hood is more fleshed out if it accounts for him acknowledging the desperation behind goons and small-time criminals because he grew up without other options.

#dc comics #dc universe #jason todd #catherine todd #willis todd #as far as i know catherine's health problems (outside addiction) are implied but not explicitly stated #yes jason did crime as well as a kid but seeing your father commit crime to survive is another matter #bruce commits crime out of choice not survivalistic need #bruce has suffered but he doesn't have this experience or understanding that Jason did #bruce and jason can both understand logically that gotham systems are fucked but jason knows it intimately #jason being bitter and angry at the world for the wealth inequality and corrupt/cruel systems in place should come up more

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The housing crisis is having a severe impact on tenants' mental health, say organizations calling on Premier François Legault to take action. It has become the leading cause of stress for psychiatric patients in Quebec, according to the Regroupement des ressources alternatives en santé mentale au Québec (RRASMQ), which held a news conference in Montreal on Sunday along with the Regroupement des comités logement et associations de locataires du Québec (RCLALQ). The two groups presented an open letter addressed directly to Legault, which will be published in the media on Tuesday. More than 300 organizations specializing in housing and mental health are imploring Legault to take concrete action to resolve the housing crisis, which is causing so much distress.

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#Housing crisis #Housing #income inequality #Mental Health #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news

[politijohn]

Source

#eat the rich #politics #billionaires should not exist #us politics #capitalism #wealth tax #income inequality #corruption #government #current events #news #tax the rich #education #health care

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Most people not knowing that tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease is part of the reason tuberculosis remains the world's deadliest infectious disease.

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#tuberculosis #illness #health inequities are unjust and unnecessary #that we allow them to persist is a failure of resource allocation and imagination

[iirulancorrino]

The Green brothers are doing effective altruism better than maybe 95% of people who identify online as effective altruists.

#I know it's cringe to be into vlogbrothers in 2024 but I'm incredibly impressed by JG's swerve into fighting global health inequities #and last week's news about their commitment to funding TB prevention was really cool #also I have a lot of respect for creators who seem able to continue to build online communities focused around optimism and trying #to do good in the world in a way that seems genuine--because I've realized how much intentional effort that must take #when social media writ large seems to skew towards either reactionaries or doom and gloom #VB was formed in an era where everyone had a lot more earnest hope in the potential of the internet and (with multiple evolutions) #they've kept going through a seismic change in the way we relate to social media and the creator economy. it's interesting #also I think it's interesting JG is doing his best work 10+ years out from his peak fame. life lesson there maybe

[intersectionalpraxis]

Capitalism is killing people in so many ways, and the medical industrial complex is one of them. Healthcare should always be a universal right -both fair and equitable access, but in many cases it is not... the mass injustices.

#feminist #social justice #current events #current news #public health #health care #medical care #health and wellness #healthcare #medical industrial complex #medical industry #capitalism is evil #capitalism kills #abolish capitalism #capitalism #treatment #classism #poverty #systemic inequality #systemic injustice #united states

[lilithism1848]

#leftism #anti capitalism #communism #socialism #anarchy #wealth inequality #millionaire #business #success #empowerment #health is wealth #successful #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #marxism leninism #xitter #marxism

[neuroticboyfriend]

i want justice for all disabled people. i want us to be able to live freely, to be loved, to have rights, to not be hurt and discarded. i want a better world for us all so deeply. this includes you, whether you think you deserve goodness or not. a life free of oppression is not something to be deserved in the sense of needing to do something to be worthy of it. you inherently need it. you have an inherent right to this and i am sorry we don't live in a better world. but one day we will. we have to.

#softspoonie #disabled #disability #disability justice #disabled community #disability rights #disability advocacy #ableism #justice #social justice #oppression #systemic inequality #systemic oppression #systemic injustice #positivity #disability positivity #disabled positivity #mental health

[probablyasocialecologist]

Despite what [Ashish] Jha says, it is still prudent to protect yourself and those you love from infection, particularly since community-level protections are gone and widespread environmental upgrades that could have minimized the spread (such as indoor ventilation) were never implemented. Yes, things are far better than in 2020, but the virus is still here, and you don’t want to get it. But Jha’s “nothing to see here” response is, in many ways, the logical outcome of Biden’s decision to essentially throw in the towel when it comes to Covid. Thanks to the official ending of the Covid public health emergency, millions—particularly low-income people—are now on their own in terms of access to the ubiquitous-in-Jha’s-mind-only tools of Democratic lore. So why bother telling anyone to worry when they might not be able to get the help they need? Instead, better to tell them that everything’s fine, that masks don’t need to be in the picture—or even that they “don’t need to know what virus they have and don’t need to be buying tests all the time,” as Shira Doron, the chief infection-control officer for the Tufts Medicine health care network in Massachusetts, told The Washington Post. Jha and Doron and their ilk can speak so soothingly because they are part of the class that is much more insulated from the worst effects of Covid. People like them—the ones with money and access—can afford the expensive Covid tests. They can ensure that Paxlovid reaches their door quickly. They’ll be first in line for the new boosters. Some of them even have a concierge physician on speed dial for when things get hairy. Meanwhile, they offer the rest of the country the policy equivalent of “You do you” and “Let them eat cake.” While too many people who should know better are downplaying the ongoing public health risk from Covid, others are trying to signal the peril of our current moment. The New York Times recently reported on new estimates from researchers that Covid might lead to at least 45,000 deaths between September and April—and that’s the best-case scenario. “Based on these projections, Covid is likely to remain in the leading causes of death in the United States for the foreseeable future,” Justin Lessler, an epidemiologist at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, told the Times. So Covid is still a leading cause of death, yet some of the most powerful medical figures in the country are telling us to ignore it. Shouldn’t that disconnect be a bigger deal?

#covid19 #coronavirus #democrats #usa #health #inequality

[alwaysbewoke]

Imagine how many people JUST LIKE HER are in ICU, TRAUMA, BIRTH AND DELIVERY, NICU, STEP-DOWN UNITS, PYSCH WARDS, ELDERLY CARE, OBGYN, CARDIOLOGY, POST OP CARE, etc…

#indiana state university #protest #racism #hate speech #campus activism #cowboy carter #beyoncé #country music #yik yak #student activism #campus response #discrimination #protest demands #campus culture #university response #social media #campus newspaper #diversity #inclusion #racial discrimination #Code of Conduct #university administration #health care disparities #Black maternal health #structural racism #health care professionals #systemic inequities

[she-is-ovarit]

I am on government insurance (Medicaid). Out of pocket, my psychologist's rate is $225 an hour. He went through a decade or more of school, obtained a PhD, and graduated with student loan debt. He didn't state how much, but I can imagine it's likely in the hundreds of thousands considering he still has this debt and graduated with his PhD in the early 2000s.

He shared with me that out of that $225 rate, he obtains about $25 from one Medicaid client's insurance company. The insurance company pockets the rest. My friend, another therapist, has a similar story. She makes $75 off of Medicaid clients usually when her rate out of pocket is $200.

Most therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists are no longer accepting Medicaid/Medicare insurances because of this reason, which people who are poor are on. Over half of mental health professionals are no longer accepting insurance, period. I think we all understand that low-income people and low-income communities struggle the most with mental health issues, and if you are a person of color in the US you are more likely to be low-income. If you are a domestic violence survivor turned homeless because you left your significant other, you are also more likely to be on Medicaid. If you are a first generation student, you are most likely on Medicaid. If you are formerly incarcerated, you are most likely on Medicaid. And so on.

Additionally, if you are a human being of the female sex, you are far more likely to seek out therapy than someone of the male sex. Overwhelmingly men don't seek out therapy unless their female significant partner pleads with them, pressures them, or gives them an ultimatum which influences them to make an appointment. What does this mean when the vast majority of mass shooters, rapists, pedophiles, and domestic violence abusers are male?

Figure 2. Percentage of adults aged 18 and over who had received any mental health treatment, taken medication for their mental health, or received counseling or therapy from a mental health professional in the past 12 months, by sex: United States, 2019

Pair all of these details with the fact that mental health professionals are in such high demand right now, that even with private insurance the wait list is anywhere from three to six months out. Insurance agencies are business, and the corruption inherent. Many focus on prioritizing coverage for acute crisis rather than treating long term underlying conditions (which in turn prevents acute crises), don't provide coverage for co-occurring conditions, are advertising that more providers are accepting their insurance than there actually are, and are solely driven by financial interest.

I wonder how much domestic violence, sexual violence, child abuse, poverty, hate crimes, generational trauma, and overall suffering within individuals and in their societies can be reduced by valuing mental health and holding insurance companies accountable for their financial exploitation.

We talk about the US healthcare crisis without talking about the US mental health crisis.

#mental health #therapy #psychology #behavioral health #social work #capitalism #late stage capitalism #poverty #inequality #healthcare #United States healthcare