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7 Reflections on the Day
7 Reflections on the Day
Pages 73-78
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"I was struck by how diligent the researchers are in trying to bring rigor to what is an extremely difficult topic to study well." He also noted that violence can be a violence prevention strategy in that reacting quickly to an ambiguous threat can be lifesaving because the one time that response is wrong, an encounter could be fatal. In some ways, he said, violence is often seen as being pathological or indicative of a mental health condition, but in fact it could illustrate a healthy brain's response to an unhealthy context.
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Marthe Gold of The New York Academy of Medicine commented that the presentations emphasized the link between the environment and violence, a connection that fits into the broader discussion about determinants of health, but the idea of hot people described by DeVone Boggan was a new concept to her. That idea got her to thinking about how hot people live everywhere, come in every color, and come from every culture and how many there might still be even if the nation could magically erase the deprivation these communities face.
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She commented that foundations are thinking about how to take a systems approach to these problems, and hopes that in the future more attention focuses on policies and systems: medical, justice, and others that contribute to the violence in communities. Samara Ford, an undergraduate student at Harvard College, remarked that as someone interested in public health, she was inspired to hear experts talking about the topic of community violence at a workshop.
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He suggested there might be an opportunity to have a workshop at which programs demonstrating successful population health interventions were published as a guide to others wanting to start programs. Bobby Milstein of ReThink Health commented on the idea that the consequences of discrimination and racism unfairly disadvantages some communities and advantages others, but they also sap the strength of the entire nation.
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Speaking as a member of the clergy, Gary Gunderson of the Wake Forest School of Medicine commented that there are some quarter of a mil lion congregations in the United States, and probably 99 percent of them do not engage these issues even though they would be well organized to do so. Rather than assuming that unless there is government intervention, change will not happen, Gunderson said, "There is very powerful testimony here that if you can be relevant and tenacious and follow the way that every single faith tradition has ever spoken to, you can shift the pattern of these most profound and intractable problems." To close the workshop, Sanne Magnan commented that during the workshop, "We have felt emotions of sadness and anger, and yet out of all of that has also come hope."
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