Chevron Right COVID-19 Made It Impossible to Ignore Racial Disparities in Health Care. Here s What s Needed for Equity Share COVID-19 Made It Impossible to Ignore Racial Disparities in Health Care. Here s What s Needed for Equity COVID isn t the only illness or condition that disproportionately affects communities of color, but it s the one that opened the entire nation s eyes to health inequalityâand helped create a push to fix the gaps in medical access and care. March 01, 2021
Three days a week, Philadelphian Wanda Callands woke up hours before the sun. She had to in order to be on time for her job at a local YMCA, where from 4:45 until 11:00 a.m. she was the temperature screener for anyone entering the facility. While her position is not listed as essential by the CDC, she faced the public every day in the midst of the pandemic.
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Black Americans have been the most hesitant to get vaccinated. But the National Medical Association has concluded that the vaccines are safe and will be instrumental in reducing the death toll in communities of color.
Studies show racism can impact work, school and even health
By: Kailey Latham
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Communities of color are facing barriers in their daily lives, but now there is work being done to eliminate the things that divide us. Eric Bailey, President and CEO of Bailey Strategic Innovation Group, works to help companies learn more about the importance of diversity and inclusion. That s one of the things that I ve been doing a lot of work with is helping people realize that not having the answer is not a reason to not enter the conversation, Bailey said.
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Amid the national reckoning over systemic racism in the midst of the pandemic this past summer, Michigan joined Ohio, Wisconsin, and more than 60 local governments in declaring racism a public health crisis. Yet as we sat in our October medical school Zoom session discussing racial health disparities with our classmates, many of us noted that once more the connection between racism and health had been proclaimed with no follow-up actions.
Declarations that racism is a public health crisis, while good steps, must generate tangible results in order to have any meaning. Every level of government must establish sufficient funding for research into the public health effects of racism in order to fully characterize the problem and propose paths to reducing harm, just as we do with other major health risks.