Fishing with skis, digging with noodles: Resolving task-and-tool mismatches in efforts to advance health equity
Katrina Plamondon, Sana Z Shahram · 2024
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Katrina Plamondon and Sana Shahram published a 2024 essay on why health equity work keeps missing its target, using the image of fishing with skis and digging with noodles. Equity efforts, they argue, keep intervening on the people most burdened by inequity instead of the systems that produce it. Models abound for the structural causes, the what. The missing piece is the how: daily practices that connect knowledge to action.
The authors offer five practices anyone can fold into ordinary work to act from evidence and equity at once. The essay is a provocation aimed at scholars and practitioners alike. It asks readers to notice their own attachment to mismatched tools. The point is practical, not scolding: pick up the right tool for the structural job.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Katrina Plamondon, Sana Z Shahram |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |