How Policy Improves Health.

Soc Work Public Health

a Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.

Published: December 2016

A discussion of health equity should be intricately examined in policy and practice discourse about the healthcare industry. This article addresses health equity with strategies to institutionalize it through policy implementation. This discourse is relevant to social work because social workers are charged with elucidating conditions that are maniacal and disadvantageous to racial groups, undocumented workers, immigrants and women. Social workers engaged in policy practice should consider how these stakeholders are excluded from health equity, because of the lack of transformative policy implementation that addresses industry practices that encourage disparity and maintain equity. This article hopes to provide a helpful view of health equity.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2015.1034002DOI Listing

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