WW-NAHN is inclusive and invites you to join us-membership or in other ways- in service with Latinx nursing to:
(1) Center Latinx populations as part of the racial and ethnic health equity continuum of the nursing profession;
(2) Intentionally lead with Racial & Ethnic Health Equity & Inclusion as the lens to uncover, name, examine and eliminate the mechanisms resulting in unjust health dispari
ties affecting Latinx communities and populations. When controlling for all "isms" in the intersections of privilege and oppression, systemic racism is the mechanism by which: "downstream effects on the differential quality and distribution of housing, transportation, economic opportunity, education, food, air quality, health care, and beyond," unjustly emerge upon communities who are BIPOC (Khazanchi, Evans & Marcelin, p.2, 2020). As such, COVID-19 has laid the inequalities bare-and did not create them. Naming structural racism as the actual "cancer" (Kendi, 2019) to treat, moves us closer to health equality for all. To make our contribution to Racial & Ethnic Health Equity & Inclusion in nursing, we aim to humbly listen and respond to the long-standing messages and demands for true access to healthy lives by Latinx community members & Latinx grass roots community organizations. Our process includes building relationships and collaborative partnerships with multiple sectors invested in programs and policies that center Racial and Ethnic Health Equity & Inclusion in building an equitable health system.
