Title: 8 Ways Health Care Racism Is Harming Black People
Headings: 8 Ways Health Care Racism Is Harming Black People
8 Ways Health Care Racism Is Harming Black People
Here are just a few examples of how health care racism plays out:
1. Harmful Stereotypes
2. Exclusionary Research Practices
3. Lack of Black Practitioners
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4. Practitioner Racism
5. ‘Treating’ Mental Health in Jail
6. Toxic Stress of Racism
7. Socioeconomic Disparities
8. Biased Health Algorithms

Content: Practitioner Racism
Stopped by hospital security at the entrance while a white classmate in front of me was let through, sans I.D. 4/9
— Samuel Kebede, MD MPhil (@KebedeMD) June 3, 2020
Racism among mostly White practitioners toward colleagues and patients also runs rampant. It occurs during medical training, as Samuel Kebede, MD, described in a Twitter thread. And it occurs in the doctor’s office by dismissing patient concerns or not offering Black patients the same standard of care. One study found that doctors with an implicit pro-White bias were less likely to prescribe pain medications following surgery to Black patients Liz Dwyer reported that a 2016 study found mental health therapists were less likely to call back prospective clients if they sounded Black or like they had a lower-income background A systematic review of studies on implicit bias among health care providers indicated 31 of the 37 studies reviewed suggested evidence of bias toward black and brown people
5. ‘ Treating’ Mental Health in Jail
Public health includes treatment by the education, housing & criminal justice system. -2.17x more likely to be arrested & 5x more likely to be imprisoned
-Whites in the criminal justice system are more likely to be identified as having a mitigating mental illness 9/
— Andy Slavitt @ ???? ( @ASlavitt) June 2, 2020
Instead of getting the care they need, Black people with mental illness are criminalized — Black people with a serious mental illness are five times more likely to be sent to jail than people with skin color privilege. Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, shared in the documentary “Bedlam” that her brother Monte was diagnosed with a mental illness in jail. [Monte] was diagnosed in the jails and so we were distrustful of the diagnosis because of the place that came from. — Patrisse Cullors
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