2022
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-022-01803-5
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Health Equity Tourism: Ravaging the Justice Landscape

Abstract: As the long-standing and ubiquitous racial inequities of the United States reached national attention, the public health community has witnessed the rise of "health equity tourism". This phenomenon is the process of previously unengaged investigators pivoting into health equity research without developing the necessary scientific expertise for high-quality work. In this essay, we define the phenomenon and provide an explanation of the antecedent conditions that facilitated its development. We also describe the… Show more

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“…In most instances, there is an emphasis on action, social justice, capacity building, and facilitating equitable partnerships [ 73 ]. As implementation scientists, partnering with community-engaged researchers can be critical in not rushing to “quick action”, and incorporating prior knowledge so as not to mischaracterize the inequities prevalent in the implementation context or the solutions to address them [ 74 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In most instances, there is an emphasis on action, social justice, capacity building, and facilitating equitable partnerships [ 73 ]. As implementation scientists, partnering with community-engaged researchers can be critical in not rushing to “quick action”, and incorporating prior knowledge so as not to mischaracterize the inequities prevalent in the implementation context or the solutions to address them [ 74 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In designing NCHAT with our diverse team and extraordinary support from our advisory board, the Population Dynamics Branch at NICHD, and the larger research community, we sought to create a resource that crosses disciplinary boundaries including population health, family studies, gender and sexuality studies, sociology, epidemiology, and psychology, so scientists could study health equity and understand the full range of families that exist in the United States. We urge those who use NCHAT to embed their research in the current literature to acknowledge health disparity pioneers in which our future research is built upon (Lett et al 2022). We are grateful for the work of those who came before us, and we are eager for the next generation of scholars, including authors on this paper (Berrigan; VanBergen), who will help us shape future waves of NCHAT and show us novel ways of thinking and advancing justice for those who are marginalized and mistreated in the United States.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Notwithstanding the increased attention to communitypartnered participatory research as an approach to centering community voices in public health research (30), dismantling the dominant narratives that dehumanize FilAms "requires that the people experiencing/embodying realities of oppression retain narrative control-not the credentialed" (7). That is, the margins of society serve as a site of possibility and resistance for inhabitants (31)-not a brief stopover for "health equity tourists" who seek to co-opt recent streams of resources intended to address racial injustice (32). Indeed, health equity scholar Lisa Bowleg has argued for critical epistemologies as necessary to dismantle harmful narratives and radically change the underlying conditions that structure exclusion (33,34).…”
Section: Knowledge Productionmentioning
confidence: 99%