Asi Yara M, Sharif Mienah Z, Wispelwey Bram, Abuelezam Nadia N, Ahmed A Kayum, Samari Goleen
School of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA.
FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Health Equity. 2024 Jun 20;8(1):371-375. doi: 10.1089/heq.2024.0027. eCollection 2024.
Between October 2023 and April 2024, more than 30,000 Palestinians were killed, and countless others injured, displaced, and traumatized, in the fifth major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip since 2006. Recent events, along with the trajectory of events over the past 75 years, demonstrate that using a public health framework could help recognize racism as a structural and social determinant of Palestinian health. Using the principles of health equity, we show how Palestinian health inequities are rooted in settler colonialism and racism, amounting to violence and oppression against Palestinian Arabs as a racialized group, regardless of religion or citizenship. Structural racism should be recognized as a driver of Palestinian health inequities.
在2023年10月至2024年4月期间,自2006年以来以色列对加沙地带发动的第五次重大袭击造成3万多名巴勒斯坦人死亡,无数人受伤、流离失所并遭受创伤。近期事件以及过去75年的事件轨迹表明,运用公共卫生框架有助于将种族主义视为巴勒斯坦人健康的一种结构性和社会决定因素。我们运用健康公平原则,展示了巴勒斯坦人的健康不平等如何植根于定居者殖民主义和种族主义,这相当于对作为一个被种族化群体的巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人的暴力和压迫,无论其宗教或公民身份如何。结构性种族主义应被视为巴勒斯坦人健康不平等的一个驱动因素。