Health and Health Care
On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism and Health, broken down into the following sections:
Issues in Health and Health Care: Access, Allostatic Load, Birth Outcomes, Cultural Competence, Economic Determinants, Environmental Determinants, Food Deserts, Food Insecurity, Health Care Services, Infant Mortality Rates, Maternity Deserts, Medical Discrimination, Medical Mistrust, Mortality Rates, Patient Outcomes, Police Violence, Pollution Exposure, Public Health Policy, Preventative Care, Racial Trauma, Social Determinants, Stress, Weathering, Work Hazards
Keywords for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches: Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Discrimination, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity, Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy
Video Clips
Source: NowThis News. (2020, June 17). How American Health Care Is Defined By Systemic Racism. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZRTLnfeqU&list=PLVix8d69sPe6BEi_CBr6CnQNL9fCIZ_GX
Source: AJ+ (2015, November 23). If You're Not White It's Harder To Get Mental Health Care. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgNaqfGTysU
Source: PBS NewsHour. (2018, April 18). Why are black mothers and infants far more likely to die in U.S. from pregnancy-related causes? YouTube. https://youtu.be/AODAk-accVc
Source: NPR. (2018, Feb. 12). Food Deserts in D.C. | Let's Talk. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQeorPkPLmU
Source: Oregonian. (2016, May 14). Transgender health care horror stories. YouTube. https://youtu.be/pvRYamafT0c
Source: AJ+ (2020, December 24). Did Racism Cause This Black Doctor's Death? YouTube. https://youtu.be/THL7aMdOKHs
Source: Vox. (2020, May 22). One reason why coronavirus hits Black people the hardest. YouTube. https://youtu.be/XAFD-0aMkwE
Source: AJ+ (2020, July 5). What’s It Like Being Undocumented During COVID-19? YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlCrudEfGFs
Source: TED. (2016, March 4).The problem with race-based medicine | Dorothy Roberts. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxLMjn4WPBY
Books
Podcasts
The Daily
Episode: A Life-or-Death Crisis for Black Mothers
Code Switch
Episode: This Racism Is Killing Me Inside
Black History Year
Episode: What You Need To Know About Medical Racism
Therapy For Black Girls
Episode: How Racism Impacts Our Mental Health
The Reveal
Episode: Reproducing Racism
Laverne Cox
Episode: Adverse Childhood Experiences
Cite Black Women
Episode: Black Women and Health Equity
The Dig
Episode: Inflamed w/ Raj Patel and Rupa Marya
At Liberty
Episode: Why Are Police the Wrong Response to Mental Health Crises?
Ear Hustle
Episode 55: Marcel and Angie: Trans Health Care in Prison
Throughline: American Police
Episode: The Everlasting Problem: Health Insurance
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: Black Women's Health Through the Twin Pandemics
In The Thick
Episode: Birth Care For Every Body
Street Politicians
Episode: Mental Health with Hill Harper and Collette Smith
Beyond the White Coat
Episode: Do No Harm: Racism in Patient Care
In the Thick
Episode: Pandemic Immunoprivilege
Being Well
Episode: Institutional Racism and Traumatic Stress with Dr. Alfiee
Speaking of Racism
Episode: Healing Racial Trauma
Anti-Racism in Medicine
Episode: Racism, Police Violence, and Health.
Articles
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- (2020) Racism’s Hidden Toll | New York Times
- (2021) CDC Says Racism Is A Public Health Threat. Here's What It Means | NPR
- (2020) Black Doctors Say Pandemic Reveals Enduring Racial Inequity Medicine Alone Cannot Fix | NPR
- (2021) Education Usually Improves Health. But Racism Sabotages Benefits For Black Men | NPR
- (2018) Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis | New York Times Magazine
- (2019) Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It | NPR
- (2020) In U.S. Cities, The Health Effects Of Past Housing Discrimination Are Plain To See | NPR
- (2016) Working 'The Chain,' Slaughterhouse Workers Face Lifelong Injuries | NPR
- (2020) Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers Most | New York Times
- (2018) Making The Case That Discrimination Is Bad For Your Health | NPR
- (2020) 'Racial Inequality May Be As Deadly As COVID-19,' Analysis Finds | NPR
- (2023) E.M.T.s Provided No Care for 19 Minutes After Police Beat Tyre Nichols| New York Times
- (2022) Florida banning transgender health care treatments for minors| CBS News
- (2023) Missouri to restrict gender-affirming care for trans adults this week | NPR
- (2020) Black American Amputation Epidemic | ProPublica
- (2022) Women Are Calling Out ‘Medical Gaslighting’ | New York Times
- (2020) Forced Sterilization of Women of Color Is an American Tradition | The Intercept
- (2021) People With Intellectual Disabilities Are Often Overlooked In Pandemic Response | NPR
- (2017) Native Americans Feel Invisible In U.S. Health Care System | NPR
- (2017) Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth | ProPublica and NPR
- (2020) Undocumented With COVID-19: Many Face A Long Recovery, Largely On Their Own | NPR
- (2020) Many Medical Decision Tools Disadvantage Black Patients | New York Times
- (2017) Health Care System Fails Many Transgender Americans | NPR
- (2020) When Maternity Wards in Black Neighborhoods Disappear | New York Times
- (2022) No, Justice Alito, Reproductive Justice Is in the Constitution | New York Times
- (2020) When Maternity Wards in Black Neighborhoods Disappear | New York Times
- (2018) Food apartheid: the root of the problem with America's groceries | Gaurdian
- (2017) 'Supersizing Urban America': How U.S. Policies Encouraged Fast Food To Spread | NPR
- (2022) These Foster Kids Need Mental Health Care. New Mexico Is Putting Them in Homeless Shelter |ProPublica
- (2019) 'Mental Health Parity' Is Still An Elusive Goal In U.S. Insurance Coverage | NPR
- (2020) People of color face significant barriers to mental health services | CNN
- (2021) Addressing Racial Divides In Health Care Seen As Key To Boosting Black Vaccination | NPR
- (2021) The Racial Disparities, Systemic Racism Behind Who Has Received Vaccines | NPR
- (2022) Health care in jails and prisons is terrible. The pandemic made it even worse. | Vox
- (2020) Mental Health And Police Violence: How Crisis Intervention Teams Are Failing | NPR
- (2019) Most Inmates With Mental Illness Still Wait For Decent Care | NPR
- (2020) Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray: the toll of police violence on disabled Americans | The Gaurdian
- (2019) These Sheriffs Release Sick Inmates to Avoid Paying Their Hospital Bills | Pro Publica
- (2020) When the Police Stop a Teenager With Special Needs | New York Times
- (2019) How New York’s Criminal Justice System Killed a Transgender Woman at Rikers Island | Intercept
- (2021) Still Can’t Breathe | ProPublica
- (2020) Back in Prison, Transgender Woman Faces an Old Horror, Sexual Assault | New York Times
- (2019) An Inmate Needed Emergency Medical Help. The Jail’s Response: See if She Has Insurance | ProPublica
- (2020) For Most Women Who Give Birth in Prison, ‘The Separation’ Soon Follows | PBS
- (2020) Number of Women Alleging Misconduct by ICE Gynecologist Nearly Triples | Intercept
- (2019) How Some Sheriffs Force Their Inmates Into Medical Debt | ProPublica
- (2020) Why the Virus Is a Civil Rights Issue: ‘The Pain Will Not Be Shared Equally’ | New York Times
- (2021) Counties at Highest Risk for COVID Harm Often Have Lowest Vaccination Rates | ProPublica
- (2020) As Hospitals Fear Being Overwhelmed By COVID-19, Do The Disabled Get The Same Access? | NPR
- (2020) Black Doctors Say Pandemic Reveals Enduring Racial Inequity Medicine Alone Cannot Fix | NPR
- (2021) The Racial Disparities, Systemic Racism Behind Who Has Received Vaccines | NPR
- (2020) As Pandemic Deaths Add Up, Racial Disparities Persist — And In Some Cases Worsen | NPR
- (2020) Why the Coronavirus More Often Strikes Children of Color | New York Times
- (2020) Mental Health Disparities Among Black Americans During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Psychiatric Times
- (2019) More Hispanic Kids Are Depressed Than Their Peers As Anti-Migrant Rhetoric Rises | NPR
- (2020) The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus | New York Times
- (2020) The U.S. Finally has Better Maternal Mortality Data. Black Mothers Still Fare the Worst. | NBC News
Scholarship
- (2018) Naming Institutionalized Racism in the Public Health Literature: A Systematic Literature Review | Rachel Hardeman
- (2021) Police Encounters as Stressors: Associations with Depression and Anxiety across Race| by Sirry Alang
- (2021) The wounds that do not heal: Black expendability and the traumatizing aftereffects of anti-Black police violence| by Ingrid Waldron
- (2021) Police Brutality and the Institutional Patterning of Stressors| Sirry Alang
- (2022) The Relationship between Systemic Racism, Residential Segregation, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Deaths in the United States| by Berkeley Franz
- (2021) Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Impacts of Racism on the Foundations of Health | Jack P. Shonkoff
- (2018) Association Between Particulate Air Pollution Exposure During Pregnancy and Postpartum Maternal Psychological Functioning | by Perry Sheffield
- (2018) Discrimination, Segregation, and Chronic Inflammation: Testing the Weathering Explanation for the Poor Health of Black Americans. | Ronald L. Simons
- (2021) Childhood Adversity and Physical Health Among Asian Indian Emerging Adults in the United States: Exploring disease-specific vulnerabilities and the role of anger. | Anthony F. Santoro
- (2018) The Association of Neighborhood Context with Health Outcomes Among Ethnic Minority Breast Cancer Survivors | by Chenkai Wu
- (2019) Trauma, Immigration, and Sexual Health Among Latina Women: Implications for Maternal–Child Well‐Being and Reproductive Justice | Sheri Lapatin Markle
- (2017) Comprehensive Neighborhood Portraits and Child Asthma Disparities | by Ashley Kranjac
- (2020) A Critical Review of Current Evidence on Multiple Types of Discrimination and Mental Health | by Sylvanna Vargas
- (2019) Mental health care among blacks in America: Confronting racism and constructing solutions| by Sirray, Alang
- (2019) Barriers Latino Patients Face in the Pediatric Emergency Department |Kaleigh Mary Connors
- (2019) Medical Mistrust, Racism, and Delays in Preventive Health Screening Among African-American Men | Wizdom Powell
- (2017) Individual and Systemic Barriers to Health Care: Perspectives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adults. | Meghan Romanelli
- (2019) "Treat us with dignity": a qualitative study of the experiences and recommendations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients with cancer. | Charles S. Kamen
- (2020) Trans Men's Access to Knowledgeable Providers and Their Experiences in Health Care Settings: Differences by Demographics, Mental Health, and Degree of Being "Out" to Providers | Kristie L. Seelman
- (2015) The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces | Natalie Oswin
- (2018) Food Insecurity, Food "Deserts," and Glycemic Control in Patients With Diabetes: A Longitudinal Analysis | Seth A. Berkowitz
- (2018) Geographic and social disparities in exposure to air neurotoxicants at U.S. public schools | Sara Grineski
- (2007) Alcohol and environmental justice: the density of liquor stores and bars in urban neighborhoods in the United States | Robert Li Kitts
- (2020) Immigrant Mothers’ Perspectives of Barriers and Facilitators in Accessing Mental Health Care for Their Children | Mia Tulli
- (2019) Barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking among African American youth and their families: A systematic review study | Arrianna M. Planey
- (2019) "What I wish my doctor knew about my life": Using photovoice with immigrant Latino adolescents to explore barriers to healthcare. | Alexandra F. Lightfoot
- (2021) Seeking recognition through carceral health care bureaucracy: Analysis of medical care request forms in a County Jail | by Emmeline Friedman
- (2018) Creating, Reinforcing, and Resisting the Gender Binary: A Qualitative Study of Transgender Women’s Healthcare Experiences in Sex-Segregated Jails and Prisons | by Jaclyn M. White Hughto
- (2014) Racial/Ethnic Disparities in History of Incarceration, Experiences of Vicitimization, and Associated Health Indicators Among Transgender Women in the U.S. | by Sari L. Reisner
- (2021) Impacts of Incarceration on Health Focusing on Minority Males: Considerations for COVID-19 and Future Pandemics. | Mary H. Hughes
- (2020) A Call for Mental Health Treatment in Incarcerated Settings with Transgender Individuals. | Eman Tadros
- (2020) Health Implications of Housing Assignments for Incarcerated Transgender Women. | Chandra L. Ford
- (2021) Racial Disparities in Access to and Utilization of Jail- and Community-Based Mental Health Treatment in 8 US Midwestern Jails in 2017 | Bethany Joy Hedden
- (2018) Black/White disparities in pregnant women in the United States: An examination of risk factors associated with Black/White racial identity. | Shondra Loggins Clay
- (2020) Structural Racism and Health Disparities: Reconfiguring the Social Determinants of Health Framework to Include the Root Cause | Ruqaiijah Yearby
- (2018) Asthma Disparity Photovoice: The Discourses of Black Adolescent and Public Health Policymakers | by Robin Andrew Evans-Agnew
- (2017) Comprehensive Neighborhood Portraits and Child Asthma Disparities | by Ashley Kranjac
- (2022) The Relationship between Systemic Racism, Residential Segregation, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Deaths in the United States| by Berkeley Franz
- (2018) Geographic and social disparities in exposure to air neurotoxicants at U.S. public schools | Sara Grineski
- (2019) Infant Mortality in the United States, 1915-2017: Large Social Inequalities have Persisted for Over a Century | by Gopal K.Singh
- (2017) Pediatric Asthma Health Disparities: Race, Hardship, Housing, and Asthma in a National Survey | by Helen K. Hughes
- (2020) Social Vulnerability and Racial Inequality in COVID-19 Deaths in Chicago | by Sage J. Kim
- (2017) Structural Racism and Health Inequities in the USA: Evidence and Interventions | by Zinzi D. Bailey
- (2020) Understanding COVID-19 Risks and Vulnerabilities among Black Communities in America: The Lethal Force of Syndemics | Tonia Poteat
- (2020) Understanding Trends in the Concentration of Infant Mortality among Disadvantaged White and Black Mothers in the United States, 1983-2013: A Decomposition Analysis | by Wen Fan and Liying Luo
- (2020) Adverse childhood experiences and mental and physical health disparities: the moderating effect of race and implications for social work | Catherine A. LaBrenz
- (2019) A culturally Informed Systematic Review of Mental Health Disparities Among Adult Indigenous Men and Women of the USA: What is known? | Kristi Ka'apu
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