title: Injustice, suffering, difference: how can community health nursing address the suffering of others?
abstract: Social justice brings to life the purpose of public health-improving a population's overall health and well-being. Critiques of the concept demonstrate that social justice is inconsistently defined and rarely is acted upon, and continuation of these injustices constitutes a form of suffering. Seeing one's self as disconnected from others makes their suffering normal. Viewing others from an ethical, moral, and human rights perspective helps one understand that the well-being of the self and the individual rests on the well-being of the collective other; this obligates each person to ameliorate and, if possible, prevent the suffering of others.
authors: Nursing Program, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA 98402-3100, USA. drevdahl@uw.edu
authors: Denise J
authors: DJ
authors: Drevdahl
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D012935:Social Justice; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000451:nursing*