Racial Equity in Public Health Policy and Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 30098
Special Issue Editors
Interests: reproductive health, rights, and justice; community engagement
Interests: reproductive rights and justice; structural barriers of health care; racial and gender disparities in health outcomes; intersections between health care and economic justice
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scope of this Special Issue is to highlight and amplify racial equity in public health policy and reproductive health, rights and justice. We seek articles, reviews or concept papers that include but are not limited to: descriptive or creative projects, reports of interventions, proposed actions and/or policy analyses that move individuals and institutions to a greater understanding of health equity.
- The focus of this Special Issue is health equity, policy, reproductive health, rights and justice. The scope is to provide descriptive work, creative works and reports of interventions, ideas, and policy solutions geared toward resolving health disparities and inequities.
- This issue will usefully supplement the existing literature by centering policy, solutions, and radical ideas yet to be fully embraced that deserve attention and that are evidence-based, but are not scaled or amplified by traditional scholarly publications. We seek changemaking manuscripts that will provide new directions, insights, and opportunities to improve the health of pregnant-capable people, people across the reproductive spectrum, and systems that provide their care.
This Special Issue will collect research studies grounded in reproductive justice to understand reproductive health and rights for people with the capacity to become pregnant. Topics include but are not limited to:
- abortion and contraception,
- family planning and healthy sexuality
- pleasure and consent of sexuality
- care for marginalized people
- health disparities and inequities
- community engaged and embedded health services
- health policy research and social interventions
Dr. Monica R. McLemore
Dr. Jamila Taylor
Mrs. Stephanie R. M. Bray
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- reproductive health, rights, and justice
- health equity
- public health
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