LET’S TALK: REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY INTRODUCTION

LET’S TALK: REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY SUPPLEMENT 3 – ADDITIONAL FRAMEWORKS FOR CONCEPTUALIZING AND ANALYZING POWER TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 POWER ANALYSIS TOOLS AND STRATEGIES 10 FRAMEWORKS TO CONCEPTUALIZE AND ANALYZE POWER 2 Power tools 11 Expressions of power 2 Health Equity Power Framework 11 Sources of power 3 Corporate practices and health 12 Taxonomy of power 4 C. [...] Examples of questions for analyzing an issue using this framework of power • Which sources of power are having the greatest influence on the issue of focus or the changes we seek? • Who or which institutions and systems are wielding that influence? • What strategies can public health use to influence those sources of power and/or increase the influence of countervailing sources of power? TAXONOMY. [...] The result in these cases was an unquestioning acceptance of market-primacy, and state-supremacy that resulted in trade, planning, and infrastructure policies that undermined the conditions necessary for health equity, and in the case of the NTER, a flagrant abuse of human rights through the implementation of a racially driven policy. [...] Making use of different spaces and venues, and drawing on their network and moral powers, enabled these actors and coalitions of actors to achieve some success in the cases of PPL and CTG. [...] In their paper, Madureira Lima and Galea described and provided health-related examples of each of the “vehicles of power” and “practices of power.” Figure 4: Dimensions, vehicles, practices and outcomes of power20(p2) 12 LET’S TALK: REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY Supplement 3 – Additional frameworks for conceptualizing and analyzing power They concluded: Corporate activities have i.