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These patterns and practices reinforce discriminatory beliefs, values, and unequal distribution of resources, wealth and opportunity.
A focus on structural racism offers a concrete, feasible, and promising approach towards advancing health equity & improving population health. https://twitter.com/brianrahmer/status/850144006818476033
A focus on structural racism offers a concrete, feasible, and promising approach towards advancing health equity & improving population health. https://twitter.com/brianrahmer/status/850144006818476033
“...we have a set of public policies that lie at the heart of the creation of this gaping wealth gap. And this means, in turn, that we need new public policy to reverse those conditions.” https://www.npr.org/2020/06/17/879041052/william-darity-jr-discusses-reparations-racial-equality-in-his-new-book #PDoH #Interdependence
“...racism is the child of economic profiteering, not the father.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/24/magazine/reparations-slavery.html #PDoH #Interdependence
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/24/magazine/reparations-slavery.html #PDoH #Interdependence
More of the world’s oldest institutions must reckon with how they profited from slavery, and their modern-day policies and practices like redlining, that perpetuate racism. https://www.axios.com/corporations-slavery-reparations-d2bca054-cf0a-4fa7-af6e-10490a49e308.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top #PDoH #SDoH
“If we want to let freedom ring, hammer on economic injustice.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/black-lives-matter-injustice.html
“In order to address the root causes of inequities in cases and deaths due to COVID-19, we need to focus not just on restarting the economy, but on reimagining the economy, divesting of systems rooted in racism and the devaluation of Black & Brown lives.” https://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/doi/10.1215/03616878-8641481/165296/Racism-and-the-Political-Economy-of-COVID-19-Will
“Denouncing Biological Race And The Insidious Harms Of Patient Blame”
“Obfuscating The Role Of Racism In Determining Health And Health Care”
https://twitter.com/health_affairs/status/1278713810426232834
“Obfuscating The Role Of Racism In Determining Health And Health Care”
https://twitter.com/health_affairs/status/1278713810426232834
“...root causes of health disparities in COVID-19 include socioeconomic factors, occupational and place-based risk, historical inequities, and direct effects of discrimination & racism.”
“Structural racism is the insidious and violent root cause.” https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200625.389260/full/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=blog&utm_content=DiuguidGerber #PDoH
“Structural racism is the insidious and violent root cause.” https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200625.389260/full/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=blog&utm_content=DiuguidGerber #PDoH
Black & Latino residents of the US have been three times as likely as white people to become infected & twice as likely to be killed by the virus. The disparities hold across state lines & regions.
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequityof Coronavirus https://twitter.com/brianrahmer/status/1279919638177091584
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequityof Coronavirus https://twitter.com/brianrahmer/status/1279919638177091584
“These declarations are springing up right at the intersection of rage against brutality & a legacy of racist health policies. Both have rendered Black life almost unlivable, and currently under an administration that has denied these concerns even exist.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-13/dozens-of-cities-dub-racism-a-public-health-crisis
“...the wealth gap is the product of centuries of inequality and racism that has grown too large to be impacted significantly by individual actions, achievements or choices.” https://www.axios.com/racial-wealth-gap-ten-myths-d14fe524-fec6-41fc-9976-0be71bc23aec.html #PDoH #SDoH #Interdependence
“At the very moment when the civil rights movement secured voting rights & the desegregation of public and private spaces, the federal government unleashed a program that enabled local officials to simply clear out entire Black neighborhoods.” http://bostonreview.net/race/brent-cebul-tearing-down-black-america #PDoH #SDoH
“...while ‘flash-points of violence and police killings’ can shed light on existing racial disparities, it’s the daily lives and mistreatment communities of color experience outside of pandemics and uprisings that lend insight into how prevalent they are.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/29/hate-crimes-americans-of-color-pandemic
“And I think housing in particular shows that simply integrating people into a particular system, shifting from exclusion to inclusion does not guarantee a just outcome when you’re dealing with an unjust framework...” https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/07/interview-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-on-why-racism-is-profitable
Economic reforms might be the best health-care reforms
The long tie between racial disparities in health care and economic inequality.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/03/economic-reforms-might-be-best-health-care-reforms/ #PDoH #SDoH
The long tie between racial disparities in health care and economic inequality.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/03/economic-reforms-might-be-best-health-care-reforms/ #PDoH #SDoH
The connection between housing, segregation & health is abundantly clear. Repealing #AFFH jeopardizes our ability to ensure everyone in America has an opportunity for good health and well-being.
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/articles-and-news/2020/02/statement-from-richard-besser-on-proposed-change-to-affirmatively-furthering-fair-housing-rule.html #PDoH #SDoH #Interdependence
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/articles-and-news/2020/02/statement-from-richard-besser-on-proposed-change-to-affirmatively-furthering-fair-housing-rule.html #PDoH #SDoH #Interdependence
For richer and poorer, Uncle Sam's coronavirus response widened the gulf
“...strong reasons to believe less-well-to-do business owners have suffered disproportionately and gotten less help from the government during the crisis.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/richer-poorer-uncle-sam-s-coronavirus-response-widened-gulf-n1234073
“...strong reasons to believe less-well-to-do business owners have suffered disproportionately and gotten less help from the government during the crisis.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/richer-poorer-uncle-sam-s-coronavirus-response-widened-gulf-n1234073
“That was there before, and I’m sure that’s going to be there after Covid-19. People are saying, ‘You need to prepare for the future,’ and what I’m saying is, ‘Help us.’” https://www.wsj.com/articles/doctors-community-groups-struggle-to-tackle-covid-19-racial-disparities-11597059288
“What we’re really talking about is structural racism.”
https://twitter.com/brianrahmer/status/1293277146086072326 #PDoH #SDoH #Interdependence
https://twitter.com/brianrahmer/status/1293277146086072326 #PDoH #SDoH #Interdependence
“...poverty and living in densely occupied households, living in localities with greater air pollution, lack of health insurance and being employed in jobs that increase exposure to the coronavirus.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/17/residential-segregation-plays-role-covid-19-disparaties-study-finds/ #PDoH #SDoH
Examining America’s oppressive past—and the potential for an equitable future.
'We're Doing Today What Should Have Started 150 Years Ago' https://time.com/5880929/pharrell-williams-black-future/
'We're Doing Today What Should Have Started 150 Years Ago' https://time.com/5880929/pharrell-williams-black-future/
“People with privilege are comfortable signing a statement, are comfortable calling someone else racist, but that’s different than the long hard work of transforming a policy...” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/21/opinion/test-white-support-black-lives/ #Interdependence
“This demonstrates collusion between epidemiology and racial capitalism because it obscures structural influences, absolving industries of responsibility for worker safety.” https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa126/5866668
“The very systemic nature of the underlying problems means change, if it comes, will require not just awareness by marginalized groups, but a sustained investment of desire and effort by all Americans, on a level that’s unprecedented...” https://twitter.com/brianrahmer/status/1298016061971890176
“...the housing programs of the Great Society, which relied on public-private ventures that almost always benefited the private interests, only helped to intensify racial disparities.” https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-race-for-profit/
“To understand racial inequality, now and historically, it’s most important to recognize how historical forms of structural racism continue to shape contemporary forms of inequitable conditions (e.g., residential segregation, mass incarceration, etc.).” https://www.thenation.com/article/society/poverty-racial-inequality/
“In every recession, we see these same disparities.”
“If you start out with less wealth and you have less access to unemployment insurance, you’re doubling down on this negative impact.” https://www.propublica.org/article/black-workers-are-more-likely-to-be-unemployed-but-less-likely-to-get-unemployment-benefits
“If you start out with less wealth and you have less access to unemployment insurance, you’re doubling down on this negative impact.” https://www.propublica.org/article/black-workers-are-more-likely-to-be-unemployed-but-less-likely-to-get-unemployment-benefits
“Yet the sense of entitlement that supposes disaster will strike over there but not in my backyard guarantees an amplification of misdirected resources and relative disparities from which everyone will suffer eventually.” https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-race-disparity/
