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Mashup Score: 1
A long history of discriminatory policies in the United States has created disparities in neighborhood resources that shape ethnoracial health inequities today. To quantify these differences, we organized publicly available data on forty-two variables at the census tract level within nine domains affected by structural racism: built environment, criminal justice, education, employment, housing, income and poverty, social cohesion, transportation, and wealth. Using data from multiple sources at several levels of geography, we developed scores in each domain, as well as a summary score that we call the Structural Racism Effect Index. We examined correlations with life expectancy and other measures of health for this index and other commonly used area-based indices. The Structural Racism Effect Index was more strongly associated with each health outcome than were the other indices. Its domain and summary scores can be used to describe differences in social risk factors, and they provide p
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Mashup Score: 39Historical Redlining, Socioeconomic Distress, and Risk of Heart Failure Among Medicare Beneficiaries - 8 month(s) ago
BACKGROUND: The association of historical redlining policies, a marker of structural racism, with contemporary heart failure (HF) risk among White and Black individuals is not well established. METHO
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Mashup Score: 0Affirmative Action: Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Harvard and U.N.C. - 9 month(s) ago
The 6-3 ruling could drastically alter college admissions policies across the country. Criticizing the decision, President Biden said this was “not a normal court” and directed the Education Department “to analyze what practices can build a more inclusive and diverse” student body.
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Mashup Score: 0How Pediatric Care Providers Are Identifying and Addressing the Impacts of Racism on Children - 10 month(s) ago
Some children’s health care providers are seeking to identify and undo discriminatory practices by listening to and learning from parents and staff.
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Mashup Score: 0Addressing Structural Racism with Asthma Research - 10 month(s) ago
As a result of these practices, asthma disparities have been amplified due to the concentration of poverty, heightened exposure to environmental hazards, and inadequate housing quality in these communities.
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Mashup Score: 0Want Racial Diversity In Medicine? Start By Addressing Structural Racism - 12 month(s) ago
If medical schools truly want to create a diverse physician workforce, a new study in JAMA suggests they must account for structural barriers to education that underrepresented racial minorities in medicine face.
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Mashup Score: 1
Structural racism prescribes systems in which policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity.1 Important differential outcomes are based upon race in medical care, within fields as diverse as paediatric surgical outcomes,2 biomedical device design,3 and health-care systems.4 Historically, the uneasy…
Source: The LancetCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Med schools are full. Why are we running out of doctors? | Dr. Rafael J. Grossmann | TEDxPortsmouth - 2 year(s) ago
We must prepare our medical students to become the doctors that we will need for a healthier future. Despite the current medical crisis in our country, the U…
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I referred to the story of a non-white #IMG , born & raised in an english-speaking country, who didn't make #TheMatch because she didn't have an english proficiency test! #Digital #Bias in #Healthcare #Education #Match2023 #MatchMadness #ECFMG https://t.co/qQbG3ikLiH @EvanKirstel
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Mashup Score: 11Review: Structural Racism, Children’s Mental Health Service Systems, and Recommendations for Policy and Practice Change - 2 year(s) ago
Racism is a public health crisis that impacts on children’s mental health, yet mental health service systems are insufficiently focused on addressing racism. Moreover, a focus on interpersonal racism and on individual coping with the impacts of racism has been prioritized over addressing structural racism at the level of the service system and associated institutions. In this paper, we examine…
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Review of #structuralracism and children’s #mentalhealth services addresses gaps and opportunities in evidence-based policy implementation. #JAACAP @kalvarezphd @IDEAS4kidsMH https://t.co/QqdKSyhEDQ https://t.co/56OgAuwm5t
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Mashup Score: 2Editorial: Dismantling Structural Racism in Children’s Mental Health Services: How Do We Do It? - 2 year(s) ago
As our society becomes more sensitized to the reach and extent of structural racism embedded in our institutions, it is important that we do serious and intentional work to undo the harmful policies and practices resulting from this multicentury process. Structural racism is both endemic and epidemic in nature. As relates to children’s mental health, there is literature that supports the presence…
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A new paper from @zchdyr of @UMass + coauthors measures the enduring imprint of #StructuralRacism on American neighborhoods using 9 domains, dubbed the Structural Racism Effect Index: https://t.co/ExMpQEJySD https://t.co/wCVCIRFFTX