What is health justice?

Health justice is a movement that seeks to name and disrupt the conditions that produce mass ill-health and suffering.

It sees health not only as an individual concern that should be remedied by engagement with medical institutions once we become unwell, but as something that should be proactively embedded on a structural and community level.

The majority of the world’s sickness and suffering is not biologically random or inevitable. It is produced by what we call “social determinants” – like state violence, poverty and poor working and living conditions.

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What is health justice?