Committee: Health and Sexuality Topic: Diabetes Sponsor: Alivio Clinic Deeply concerned that Social Justice is to be critical with locating inconsistencies and contradictions on an economic, political, social and cultural level in a “democracy”. Social injustices have microscopic to global effects on humanity and social justice is able to create emancipatory solutions. Therefore, the health of communities is connected to larger issues of poverty, food justice, health care reform, and capitalism,
Realizing how historically, certain community’s consumption has a direct connection to slavery and oppression. Communities were forced to be creative to make foods edible. Complex problems, like the institutions that keep communities sick, deserve solutions that acknowledge the complex nature of the problems in order to change them. Personal change is necessary to alter new healthy cultural traditions,
Encouraging interventions to reduce T2MD and comparable health disparities must incorporate a social justice perspective that guarantees a right to adequate food and other health-relevant environments, and concomitantly, a right to health,
Affirming the critical race scholars and People of Color in the academy, we can build and develop ways of doing research that counter traditional research and paradigms and lead to a more complete understanding of the experiences of People of Color within and beyond education institutions, Stressing that poverty imposes multiple barriers to health, including limited access to healthy nutrition and is a strong predictor of diabetes,
Taking into account that the Alivio Medical Center is a bilingual, bicultural organization committed to providing access to quality cost-effective health care to the Latino community, the uninsured and underinsured, and not to the exclusion of other cultures and races. This mission is expressed through the provision of services, advocacy, education and research and evaluation provided in an environment of caring and respect,
Provides high-quality, culturally sensitive, comprehensive medical care for those whose income, lack of health coverage or other social and economic vulnerability limit their ability to access mainstream medical care;
Applauds Carmen Velasquez, Alivio’s founder and current Executive Director, who was involved in issues surrounding barriers to health care. The manifestation of Latino communities being neglected of medical care drove her creation of the Project Alivio;
Suggest Alivio has grown to become a respected and willing advocate and leader championing community issues in health care, welfare and immigration reform, housing and transportation concerns, managed care practices, and workforce development;
Demands equality for medical care;
Expresses the hope of fussing, the idea of my non-profit organization, with their mission and be able to work side by side to demolish injustices in medical care.