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My Quest for Health Equity: Notes on Learning While Leading (Health Equity in America) Kindle Edition
Reading this book is like sitting down with Dr. David Satcher to hear stories of leadership and lessons learned from his lifetime commitment to health equity.
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 School of Medicine. 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 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.
Drawing on his early memories, medical school days, experience in the civil rights movement, and professional highs and lows, Dr. Satcher touches on a number of topics, including
• the essential qualities of leadership
• leading from science to policy to practice
• the importance of clear communication and continual learning
• the need for workplace discipline
• confronting failure
• specific health issues, including the obesity epidemic, reproductive health, and mental health stigma
• team approaches to leadership
• and much more
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.
Review
―Roger Mitchell Jr., former Chief Medical Examiner, City of Washington, DC
I have long been an admirer of Dr. David Satcher's work in public health, including his commitment to achieving health equity for all. This book exemplifies his approachable way of explaining complicated issues like ending health disparities and cultivating leadership qualities.
―Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States
Every public health and academic leader should read this book now. In his rich, nuanced, and memorable voice, David Satcher teaches us about real leadership. His extraordinary ability to move between the worlds of public health and academia is driven by his single, clear passion for health equity, a cause he has advanced more than any other individual.
―Nancy M. Bennett, MD, MS, Director, Center for Community Health and Prevention, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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Book Description
Reading this book is like sitting down with Dr. David Satcher to hear stories of leadership and lessons learned from his lifetime commitment to health equity.
--This text refers to the paperback edition.Review
Every public health and academic leader should read this book now. In his rich, nuanced, and memorable voice, David Satcher teaches us about real leadership. His extraordinary ability to move between the worlds of public health and academia is driven by his single, clear passion for health equity, a cause he has advanced more than any other individual.
-- Nancy M. Bennett, MD, MS --This text refers to the paperback edition.- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
- Publication dateSeptember 8, 2020
- File size2368 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B084Q8SRWX
- Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st edition (September 8, 2020)
- Publication date : September 8, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 2368 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 238 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #579,708 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #83 in Epidemiology (Kindle Store)
- #114 in Health Policy (Kindle Store)
- #250 in Public Health (Kindle Store)
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