Nursing curriculum through a social justice lens: An upstream approach.

This article describes a one-day seminar rooted in critical interactionism for nursing students in a diverse urban setting in the United States. The authors are registered nurses and members of Nurses for Social Justice (NSJ)-a loose network of nurses and nursing students committed to societal change. Informed by the history of NSJ and larger social justice movements, the authors intentionally incorporate their personal experiences and offer an example of how nursing education can improve health at the micro and macro levels.

Applying a community-based participatory research approach to improve access to healthcare for Eritrean asylum-seekers in Israel: a pilot study.

Background: Israel hosts approximately 50,000 asylum seekers, most of them from Eritrea. Exclusive policies restrict their access to healthcare. In 2013, local activists partnered with Eritrean asylum seekers to assess health needs as well as willingness to pay for health insurance among the Eritrean communities.