Social Justice Concepts
Ways that unequal societal structures affect patients' health and healthcare
What is social justice?
Money, power, environment, structural violence, discrimination
What are social determinants of health?
How one conceptualizes a person as either vulnerable or privileged
What is social justice awareness?
A core value of nursing in which sympathy and an awareness of another's suffering creates a desire to alleviate it
What is compassion?
Humanistic relating to others
What is an appropriate nursing practice for clients who are victims of social injustice?
Social Justice
What is a core value of nursing that is largely neglected in thought and practice today?
Causes human suffering
What is money, power, environment, structural violence, or discrimination?
Awareness, amelioration, and transformation
What are the three stages of social justice actualization?
A social construct where those who are being ruled can be oppressed to the point of and including death
What is biopower?
Informing others about the contribution nursing can make to social justice
What is the goal of education in social justice?
Conditions in society which lead to the dehumanization of persons, including adverse health effects
What is social injustice?
What is awareness?
When an individual does not want to speak up for justice in healthcare and education
What is structural injustice?
Connecting with many different stakeholders
What are multidisciplinary strategies to effect change in societal structures?
The equitable bearing of burdens and benefits in society and sharing the responsibility for achieving social justice
What is justice?
What are money, power, environment, structural violence, and discrimination?
Short-term fixes
What is amelioration?
Inequitable health and social policies that keep people on the fringes of society and negatively effects their health and quality of life
What is marginalized?
Working with persons to determine how meanings, choices, quality of life, health, and healing are affected by social injustices on the individual, family, community, and population level
What is a purpose of collaboration in social justice?
Transcultural nursing has become the focus of inclusive patient care in nursing to the exclusion of this additional important concept
What is social justice?
This construct is present in most societal structures
What is power?
Changing societal structures that cause unjust situations
What is transformation?
Offenses against humanity due to social causes that result in violence
What is structural violence?
To determine root causes (social, environmental, educational, economic)
What is the purpose of connecting with persons who are victims of social injustice?