Probably all of us could agree that we in public health have “a first-and-foremost responsibility to advance a unifying vision of health based on the reality of our connections to each other,” such as in research, teaching, and practice on the social determinants of health. However, I’m not understanding that a “core imperative of public health is to work towards a world without the divides of which borders can be physical and symbolic representations.” Without divides, how do we sift the truth from what is false? Perhaps this writer is taking the point too literally…
Probably all of us could agree that we in public health have “a first-and-foremost responsibility to advance a unifying vision of health based on the reality of our connections to each other,” such as in research, teaching, and practice on the social determinants of health. However, I’m not understanding that a “core imperative of public health is to work towards a world without the divides of which borders can be physical and symbolic representations.” Without divides, how do we sift the truth from what is false? Perhaps this writer is taking the point too literally…