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My Quest for Health Equity: Notes on Learning While Leading

Satcher, David
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Edition: 1st
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1-4214-3831-3 (1421438313)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-3831-3 (9781421438313)
Format: Personal Narrative
Binding: Hardcover
Copyright: 2020
Publish Date: 09/20
Weight: 1.01 Lbs.
Pages: 240
Subject Class: PUB (Public Health)
Return Policy: Returns accepted up to 90 days provided no other recalls or return restrictions apply.
 
Class Specifications
Discipline: Medical Prof
Subject Definition: Health Equity; Leadership; Public Health
NLM Class: W 76
LC Class: RA418
Abstract: Dr. David Satcher is one of the most widely known and well-regarded physicians of our time. A former four-star admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he served as the Assistant Secretary for Health, the Surgeon General of the United States, and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before founding the eponymous Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse College. At the core of his impact on public health, he is also a lifelong leader for civil rights and health equity. Born black and poor in the deep South, Dr. Satcher was a victim of an unjust health care system: he almost died of whooping cough at the age of two because Jim Crow laws meant that his black doctor could not admit him to a hospital. That experience was the first of many that shaped him as a leader and a healer deeply attuned to social inequity...someone who was determined to make a positive difference. In My Quest for Health Equity, Dr. Satcher takes an inspiring and instructive look inside his own fifty-year career to shed light on the challenge and burden of leadership. Explaining that he has thought of each leadership role...whether in academia, community, or government...as an opportunity to move the needle toward health equity, he shares the hard-won lessons he has learned over a lifetime in the medical field. ... In this book, readers will discover a template for using leadership roles of all types to eliminate health disparities. My Quest for Health Equity is a vital resource for current and rising leaders.

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