Why Do Health Inequality Solutions Keep Failing?

How can health inequality be reduced?

It was the most topic The recent incident That Global Health Affairs Podcast With Dr. Gary Asian.

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Understand health inequalities

The guest explained, “Health inequality is created through social relations and within it, which rules the production and exchange of solid materials that we need to survive and flourish, so as to ensure health -like welfare.” HaiExecutive Director of the Right Foundation in the Korean city of Seoul. “According to material situations, I mean how much we own and control different economic resources. Resources that can create things like money, land, credentials and labor. What do you have and how many of these resources you critically control do what you want to make your welfare.”

In other words, he explained that relations between various actors within the global health-such as nations, non-governmental organizations, private gentlemen, or stakeholder groups within countries, are deeply embedded in a system that provides inequality of resources and power between countries and within both countries.

Kim added, “Along with material and electricity relations, the inequality has a profound impact on the strategies and directions that the global health field works to meet its goals.”

The role of local sounds

Kim pointed out that global health efforts often lead to elites who impose solutions from above, assuming that they have the best answers. This trend normalizes its point of view and makes it universal at the cost of backward ideas that are not compatible with them.

He has preferred to invite and hear partners from countries facing local health challenges. While he has seen some progress in the area, he emphasized that it is now a long journey. In addition, he warned that it is not enough to include just local voices – it is important to ensure that he is really representative, not the elite of his own communities.

“We live in a structure where resources and power inequalities are so widely that in these countries, the degree of inequality is high. Therefore, to find out what the working class and communities really want to be achieved by choosing only a few so -called representatives,” said less. “The needs and wishes of these communities are best expressed by the members of these communities and the working class groups through their local context through movement and initiatives. It is only difficult for the elite to select only one or two representatives for forums, meetings, and conferences.

Act

Kim emphasized that people need to work in their domains to achieve change – whether they recognize students, researchers, or professors – and recognize their hereditary limits.

Kim added, “Let us protect ourselves from the temptation of a global ideology where we can do, just because this is the work we can do, this is the most important or the best approach.” “It is possible to resolve the inequality of health only when focus is on inequality and material relations. And history teaches us that the struggle for equality has been fought and won by the oppressed and exploited classes, not by the elite.

Build a sustainable change

Another guest on Podcast, Seye AbimbolaAn Associate Professor of Health System Research at the University of Sydney’s School of Public Health, Kim recovered a lot of what he said but added another critical point of view: Many change efforts fail because people assume that change will be itself.

“Change is not just an accident or an auto pilot,” Abmobla stressed. “You have to make things, and be part of the construction structure that permanently do through people whom, with whom, and for whom we should work.”

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