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Today, PSR is joining with dozens of organizations, representing millions of Americans, calling on the U.S. Senate to pass clean energy and climate legislation. Please tell your Senators that we can no longer delay action if we are to protect our health and the health of future generations from catastrophic climate change.
Guided by the values and expertise of medicine and public health, PSR seeks to protect human life worldwide from the impact of social injustice and structural violence. The root causes of social injustice are many and include the widening gaps between rich and poor, the unequal distribution of resources, discrimination, and the disenfranchisement of individuals and groups from the political process. PSR’s current core areas of Environment and Health and Global Security have direct connections to social justice issues.
Legs Against Arms: Philadelphia PSR and Student PSR participated in the 2nd annual Legs Against Arms 5K Race/Walk on April 13th, 2008 to stop youth violence. Learn more about this event on the website.
International Small Arms Project: SPSR is one of a few IPPNW chapters working to create a new project entitled The International Student Coalition to Abolish Small Arms. This project will focus on global perspectives on small arms violence, and the means for prevention. This project is currently in the pilot phase, with a seed group in the US led by Jack Wang of Stanford University, a seed group in Nigeria led by Ehase Agyeno, and several seeds in Latin America.
PSR Philadelphia is one of the finalists for a Toms Of Maine award of $20,000. There will be 5 finalists determined by vote. Each person can vote 5 times per day. Voting is on the TomsofMaine website. Fifty finalists are featured at www.50statesforgood.com, where the public can learn more about community efforts around the country and vote to determine which five projects will split $100,000 in funding.
PSR Announces Position on Healthcare Reform
We contend that healthcare reform should create a program that will ensure access to primary and preventive medical care to all inhabitants of the United States. Creation of a universal comprehensive primary and preventive care program in the United States that also addresses the major social determinants of health would be an investment that will pay dividends in improved health, increased productivity, and reduced cost for care as is enjoyed by developed nations except the United States.
PSR Maine and Maine Primary Care Association's program on domestic violence. Read more »
Status Syndrome: A Challenge to Medicine
The poor have poor health. At first blush that is neither new nor surprising. Perhaps it should be more surprising than it is. In rich countries, such as the United States, the nature of poverty has changed—people do not die from lack of clean water and sanitary facilities or from famine—and yet, persistently, those at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale have worse health than those above them in the hierarchy. Read more »
The Topography of Poverty in the United States
This paper describes a spatial analysis of poverty in the United States at the county level for 2000. Read more »
Market Justice and US Health Care
Social justice in health care requires universal coverage and ensured access to care, whether through social insurance, private insurance, or some combination. Read more »
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