RACISM and PUBLIC POLICY Race, Health Care and the Law Regulating Racial Discrimination in Health Care (original) (raw)

Race, Health Care and the Law: Regulating Racial Discrimination in Health Care

The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Its work is guided by the conviction that, for effective development policies to be formulated, an understanding of the social and political context is crucial. The Institute attempts to provide governments, development agencies, grassroots organizations and scholars with a better understanding of how development policies and processes of economic, social and environmental change affect different social groups. Working through an extensive network of national research centres, UNRISD aims to promote original research and strengthen research capacity in developing countries.

Regulating Racial Discrimination in Health Care

2002

Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Its work is guided by the conviction that, for effective development policies to be formulated, an understanding of the social and political context is crucial. The Institute attempts to provide governments, development agencies, grassroots organizations and scholars with a better understanding of how development policies and processes of economic, social and environmental change affect different social groups. Working through an extensive network of national research centres, UNRISD aims to promote original research and strengthen research capacity in developing countries.

Wellbeing and Social Policy in Developing Countries

2014

The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous research institute within the UN system that undertakes multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on the social dimensions of contemporary development issues. Through our work we aim to ensure that social equity, inclusion and justice are central to development thinking, policy and practice.

Inequality and redistribution in health care: analytical issues for developmental social policy

Critiquing 'race' and racism in development discourse and practice

Progress in Development Studies, 2006

I 'Race' in development Forms of racism and expressions that articulate ideas about 'race' are fluid and multiple, contingent and contextual, ranging from overt to covert and unreflexive. Historically and geographically rooted, such expressions have become increasingly variegated, even detached from their originary impulses, and can travel far and wide. It is in this spirit of critical enquiry that the papers in this special issue aim to reveal some of the tenacious strands of racialized forms of knowing and representing in development discourse and practice. This is a realm that has remained curiously untouched by the postcolonial critiques and debates about 'race' in other social science disciplines (see Biccum, 2002). Together, the papers attempt to disrupt these 'disturbing silences, banalisations and erasures' (Grovogui, 2001: 437) and, focusing on a diverse range of issues from varying perspectives, question the absence of discussions around 'race'. They suggest how understanding development in terms of 'race' can spotlight inadequacies, contradictions and misrepresentations in development ideologies, policies and practices, as well as relations of power. Escobar (1995) argues that discourses of (western) development discursively produce the third world as different and inferior, and accordingly as its object of study and intervention. These articles explore how racialized forms of power and inequality build upon this foundational distinction between the 'developed' and 'developing' and draw attention to the various, unspoken assumptions about 'race' that underpin some of the key ideological bases of development thought and practice. Additionally, they identify the need for further exploration of the subtle manifestations of racism within international development. Postcolonial, postdevelopment and antidevelopment critics have provincialized the supposed universality of western notions of development and have critiqued the inability of the west to theorize non-western experiences. However, while these accounts have alluded to 'race', they have largely focused on challenging eurocentrism (Escobar, 1995; Pieterse and Parekh, 1995). This does not mean that ideas about 'race' have been completely absent in accounts about development. Other research and writing, largely within geography, have explored the relationship between gender/feminism, postcolonialism and development (Robinson, 1994;

Committing to anti-racism reforms? Three critical building blocks for global health organizations

PLOS Global Public Health

Independent reviews of racism in organisations working to improve global health and justice are piling up. In 2021, a report on abuse and discrimination at Doctors Without Borders was published [1]. In April 2022, Amnesty International UK reported that initial findings from their investigation suggested that the organisation "exhibits institutional racism" [2]. Two recent independent reviews highlighting pervasive attitudes, behaviours and processes that disadvantage minoritized individuals at two of the oldest and most renowned institutes of global health in the world-the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)-therefore raise issues that are not unique to these institutions [3, 4]. Neither are the predicaments associated with moving ahead. Leadership of numerous global health institutions have ostensibly committed to working towards becoming anti-racist. However, the task ahead is an enormous one that will require radical reforms, especially since global health institutions are neither global nor diverse [5]; for example, the 2022 Global Health 50/50 report highlights that approximately three-quarters of decisions-makers on governing boards of global health organisations are from high income countries, with 51% from the UK and US [6]. Having been closely involved in the 'anti-racism and decolonisation' journeys of LSHTM and LSTM, we lay out three critical building blocks that we believe are essential for meaningful reform organisations working in global health. Although written with global health academia in mind, we anticipate these would apply to the increasing number of organisations working in global health that are confronting similar issues.

The Neo-Liberal Doctorine and the African Crisis

2001

Ethnic and Spatial Inequalities

2009

The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary development issues. Its work is guided by the conviction that, for effective development policies to be formulated, an understanding of the social and political context is crucial. The Institute attempts to provide governments, development agencies, grassroots organizations and scholars with a better understanding of how development policies, and processes of economic and social change, affect different social groups. Working through an extensive network of national research centres, UNRISD aims to promote original research and strengthen research capacity in developing countries.

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