In their new Forefront article, Jeanne Ayers, Gnora Mahs & Anthony Iton of Healthy Democracy Healthy People and The California Endowment call on their colleagues to explore how they, and the institutions they work in, can strengthen voting and support the health of our democracy.
"Ironically, workers in the health sector, such as physicians, nurses, physician assistants and dentists, are 12-23 percent less likely to vote than the general population. This is concerning because the sector accounts for 22 million workers, or about 14 percent of all workers in the United States. Thus, leaders in health need to also think about how to encourage and motivate their colleagues to register to vote, and then to actually vote. Our own efforts (JA and GRGM) include the recently launched Thrive through Civic Health: We Will Vote initiative. A collaboration between Healthy Democracy Healthy People, Vot-ER, and Civic Health Alliance, the initiative seeks to get more of the health workforce to vote and also to be champions of voting, whether with colleagues or patients."
Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/3yKY8We