Social justice issues in public health

Considerations of social justice require a central focus on power. A consideration of power necessitates a simultaneous consideration of knowledge and how knowledges are leveraged to affect power relations. 

Research
​(knowledge production)

  • Community participation in health research
  • Health research theory
  • Dominant vs. subjugated health knowledges

Education
​(knowledge communication)

  • Discursive formations of health knowledge
  • Health messaging
  • Representation in disease/illness/ health narratives

Practice
(knowledge translation)

  • Implicit bias in health practice and health systems
  • The medical gaze
  • Social and structural barriers to health access