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Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta

Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda
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The late David K. Jones spent four years visiting the Mississippi Delta conducting primary research with residents and local leaders to explore the connections between race, place, and health. He weaves their insights with data analysis to show how local, state, and national policies and structures, whether intentional or not, constrain or expand the daily choices of individuals that affect health. In order to remedy the complex problem of health disparities, Jones argues that a new approach to creating health equity policy is needed. Through firsthand narratives, Jones elevates the voices of people living and working in the Delta to guide the discovery of which community-led ""ripples of hope"" efforts have already been effective and should be nourished and what policy changes are still needed to support healthy lives. In this mix of ethnography, policy, and social science, Jones offers a roadmap for creating a community-led, goal-based, deficit and asset approach to charting a health policy agenda to health equity in the Delta and beyond.
David K. Jones was an associate professor of health law, policy, and management at Boston University School of Public Health and the author of Exchange Politics: Opposing Obamacare in Battleground States. Debra Bingham is the founder and CEO of the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement, LLC. Sarah H. Gordon is assistant professor of health law, policy, and management at the Boston University School of Public Health. Nicole Huberfeld is Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at Boston College School of Law and Boston College School of Public Health.
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