Helen Rodriguez-Trias Award

The Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award is given to those who serve social justice for the disadvantaged and the disadvantaged. Individual work should focus on improving the health and happiness of these people and should include leadership, support and guidance (any or all of these activities). This award was named after the late APHA president and pediatrician's doctor Helen Rodriguez-Trias. Dr. Rodriguez-Trias is an impressive example of the need to meet the needs of disadvantaged people, especially women and children. Through her work and behaviorism she uses a social justice strategy that influences change.

For the purposes of this award, the purpose of social justice is to improve public health and well-being through work that leads to the elimination of health differences. These efforts will enable disadvantaged communities to make sound changes, to influence public policy, and to provide a more equitable resource allocation for those who have little or no access. Certain areas that need to be considered for this award include intercultural communication, reproductive rights, female health problems, and provision of medical services. Public health workers should be given priorities and their actions can be viewed as models to deal with unfair problems at national, state and / or local level.

As a doctor, Helen Rodriguez Trias has established a health center and clinic to service women and children in poor communities. As an activist, she is one of the strongest leaders who challenge suspicious medical practices, and she is deprived of her patient's right to serve. Statements about women's health over decades of Rodriguez Strias are still very important, as today's healthcare and abortion rights are a major controversy. A frank discussion on the health of women's women in Rodriguez Strias will make doctors and activists aware of the differences between wealthy women and low-income women, and the additional challenges faced by women in the US healthcare system. Her words answered today's political discourse about the body of the woman and reminded people that these arguments still have to exist.

Helen Rodriguez was born in New York in 1929. In the early days I stayed in Puerto Rico and when I was 10 years old I went back to New York with my family. She grew up in New York as a Puerto Rican and experienced racial discrimination and individual discrimination. Rodriguez-Trias graduated from Puerto Rico University in 1957, became a student activist there, dealing with issues such as freedom of speech and independence of Puerto Rico. Later she got into Puerto Rico University again to study medicine. And it "combines my favorite things, science and people."

Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias is a founding member of the Women Core Group of the American Public Health Association.

In the early 1970s, Rodriguez triath was invited from a student association at New York University law school to talk briefly about disinfection of Puerto Rico after watching a movie. After her speech, Rodriguez-Trias got in touch from a small audience. Some hospital staff remind you of a few minorities and vulnerable women who were forced to sign a sterilization agreement, but they do not provide all the information about the procedure and its alternatives. A young woman imprisoned in New York City police was raised for discussion. While she was in detention women knew that they were pregnant and wanted abortion. She was taken to a public hospital for surgery. Sterilization is considered the best way to prevent future unwanted pregnancies during abortion counseling. The young woman misunderstood the document without knowing it, and later regretted the procedure.