Guest speaker Renaisa Anthony speaks up about how to work on health equity in present-day Detroit and worldwide. The speaker is a public health practitioner and medical doctor in training. People she went to school with had HIV and aids. She noticed that people she knew also were pregnant with two kids and were struggling to feed their children. When she would go back home she would notice the price of fresh produce was not only hard to find but very expensive. This statement was something very commonly discussed this semester, health disparities in underprivileged communities. The shocking truth that various people are not denying health products because they dislike it, but can be due to the fact that it’s scarce and expensive. Learned in medical school that African Americans and Latinos are more susceptible to diabetes, high blood pressure, and many more diseases that can drastically affect the life expectancy of a person. Which is common information that is used to project what age we are expected to live up to based on cultural values and sex.
The values that are social determinants of health based on the speaker is race/ethnicity, culture (norms and currency), education, socioeconomic status/ income, neighborhoods, and occupation. These social determinants of health are reviewed and re-enforced but are listed in different hierarchical values for different people based on importance. For some race and ethnicity is the most important, in which my opinion I believe it is because race and ethnicity are commonly used to discriminate and project a person’s life expectancy. The solution suggested by the speaker or recipe for health equity is research, education, collaboration, initiative, public health/ policy, and empathy to empower. In order to empower change, the speaker suggests momentum. As defined by her she states momentum is moments… monumental moments that move you forward.
Health Care Is Not A Privileged Its A Right! 
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