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Health Communication. An understanding of how vaccine hesitant rhetoric continues and how vaccine hesitant behaviors are potentially transmitted and upkept is vital in curated messaging and health communication campaigns to address them. Health communications are much more likely to fall on deaf ears when the messaging is not relatable nor understood. Also, health communications may also fail if the recipients do not feel the communicators have a true understanding of why certain health behaviors and attitudes exist and persist. Intergenerational trauma as a process potentially offers a clear mechanism in which mistrust of other facets of healthcare and public health may also be understood, addressed, and ameliorated. Racial Equity PH Frameworks As the collective American health system works to reach herd immunity for COVID-19, health communication and promotion campaigns that strongly impact Black health decision making may be able to become racial equity education tools for public health professionals in the future. If clear mechanisms between vaccine hesitancy and intergenerational trauma can be noted, ties between intergenerational trauma and other institutions in which Black people are untrusting may be revealed. Awareness of the role intergenerational trauma plates in health behaviors and decision-making for Black people creates more room to implement distributive justice further into public health practices Distributive Justice Distributive justice is a contemporary development under the umbrella of the ethical theory of utilitarianism (Xxxxxxx, 2013). While utilitarianism is an ethical theory which suggests the goodness of an action/intervention/etc. is determined by the aggregate good done for the most people, distributive justice is a caveat that suggests net good is only truly beneficial when it is equitably spread (Xxxxxxx, 2013). In relation to this thesis, this means that distribution of “good” actively includes distribution to racial minorities, not just racial majorities, as seen in Figure 1. As utilitarianism is the ethical theory from which many public health codes of ethics are based, understanding the mechanisms of intergenerational trauma and the potential impacts they have on Black health may be a gamechanger for public health impacts ethically as well as quantitatively.
