Health and Healthcare
Overview
The healthcare system in this country, much like the educational system, more often than not leaves poor communities of color chronically underserved. Resources in this section share data and solutions. The solutions acknowledge a need for better access to health care to address disparities, coupled with addressing the intergenerational and cumulative effects of structural racism and its impact on people of color's health. Resources document these over-arching inequities as well as the social determinants of health. They also shed light on some specific (and alterable) practices by healthcare providers and systems that may put specific populations (Latino migrant workers, for instance) at unnecessary risk, considering impact not intent.
Key sites
Research
- Confronting Institutionalized Racism
- Giving Voices to the Voiceless: Language Barriers and Health Access Issues of Black Immigrants of African Descent
- The Impact of Race and Racism on Mental Health Clients, Practitioners, Organizations, and Delivery Systems
- Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and Gardeners Tale
- Racial Disparities in Health: The Multidimensional Contributions of Racism
- Ten Things to Know about Health
- Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States
- Using ''Socially Assigned Race'' To Probe White Advantages In Health Status
- Segregated Spaces, Risky Places: The Effects of Racial Segregation on Health Inequalities
- Implicit Bias and Health Care Inequities
- State of the Dream 2014 - Healthcare for Whom? Enduring Racial Disparities
- Intersectionality: Moving Women’s Health Research and Policy Forward.
- From Miasma to Ebola: The History of Racist Moral Panic Over Disease
- Health Equity
- Innovations in Health Equity
- Filling in the Gaps: A Racial Equity Framework for Successful Implementation of the Affordable Care
- How Tobacco Companies Led A Devastating 50-Year Infiltration Into Black Communities
- Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
- How Racism Became a Public Health Crisis in Pittsburgh
Practices
- Building Stronger Communities for Better Health
- Closing the Gap: Solutions to Race-Based Health Disparities
- Reducing Health Disparities Through a Focus on Communities
- Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Health Equity Quiz
- Communicating for Health Justice: A Communications Strategy Curriculum for Advancing Health Issues
- Understanding How to Impact Health Policy
- Working Upstream: Skills for Social Change
- Violation of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation in the City of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- Top 10 Things We Know About Young Children and Health Equity...and Three Things We Need to Do
- The State of Obesity: Special Report Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Obesity
- Towards Racial Equity through Policy & Assessment: Healing Possible Quorum 100: Recommendations
- Promoting Health Equity: A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health
- Local Health Department Organizational Self-Assessment for Addressing Health Inequities: Toolkit
- Allies for Reaching Community Health Equity
- Health Care Equity Tool Kit for a Winning Policy Strategy
- Public Health Awakend: Organizing for health, equity, and justice
- Finding Leverage over the Social Determinants of Health: Insights from a Study of 33 Health Conversion Foundations
- HealthEquityGuide.org
- Health Equity Report: Uncovering the Root Causes of Health
- Let's Talk Universal and Targeted Approaches to Health Equity
- Health Care Equity Tool Kit for a Winning Policy Strategy
- Building Public Health Capacity to Advance Equity: A National Environmental Scan of Tribal, State, and Local Governmental Public Health
- Facts Matter! Black Lives Matter! The Trauma of Racism
- Roots of Health Equity
- Centering Race in Health Equity: Lessons Learned
