Health
HEALTH DISPARITIES
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Everyone should have the opportunity to achieve good health. Social determinants of health are the non-medical conditions— i.e., those in which people are born, grow, live, work, play, pray, and age, that shape health. This brief provides an overview of social determinants of health and emerging initiatives to address them.
Link: Click here | Time: 8 minutes | Media: Text | Source: National Museum of African American History & Culture
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Dr. Camara Jones uses a cliff analogy to demonstrate that’s often not the case. Dr. Jones, UCSF Presidential Chair at the University of California, San Francisco, offers ways to reduce health disparities and better connect people to high-quality medical care.
Link: Click here | Time: 8 minutes | Media: Video | Source: The Urban Institute
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This brief provides an introduction to what health and health care disparities are, the status of disparities and how COVID-19 has affected them, the broader implications of disparities, and current federal efforts to advance health equity.
Link: Click here | Time: 8 minutes | Media: Text | Source: KFF
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Urban planners think about equity for all people in how they design a community in Hillsborough County, Florida
Link: Click here | Time: 6 minutes | Media: Video | Source: 83 Degrees Media Magazine
LGBTQ+ COMMUNITIES
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We all deserve compassionate, medically accurate, informed healthcare, but unfortunately, members of LGBTQIA+ communities do not always receive that kind of care.
Link: Click here | Time: 10 minutes | Media: Text | Source: Healthline
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“LGBTQ communities experience health inequities compared to heterosexual and cisgender peers. The health justice framework allows advocates to move the work upstream to the root causes of the problems rather than placing a band-aid on the resultant consequences once the harm is caused.” This article briefly goes into detail about issues experienced by this population as well as frameworks.
Link: Click here | Time: 7 minutes | Media: Text | Source: Bill of Health
MENTAL AND MATERNAL HEALTH
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About 21 percent of the general population suffers from some form of mental health condition, but among Asian Americans, that number is far lower. It’s not because they are any less affected, though. WGBH News reporter Cristina Quinn reports on a study that finds a glaring disparity between whites and Asians when it comes to mental disorder diagnosis and treatment
Link: Click here | Time: 5 minutes | Media: Video | Source: GBH News
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Janay Bailey, MS, psychotherapist, considers not only extending mental health care to underserved communities but also dispelling the stigma that surrounds mental health issues in some of those communities
Link: Click here | Time: 5 minutes | Media: Video | Source: Psychiatric Times
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Essence lifestyle editor, Victoria Uwumarogie, speak with Dr. Robyn Jones, Senior Medical Director at Johnson & Johnson and YouTuber and nurse Rita Onyx.
Link: Click here | Time: 20 minutes | Media: Video | Source: Essence Magazine
RACIAL DISPARITIES
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As many doctors, nurses, and other health workers have joined protests against systemic racism, research has shown that racial bias is pervasive in health care, perhaps most apparent in the assessment and treatment of pain.
Link: Click here | Time: 10 minutes | Media: Text | Source: The Washington Post
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How the COVID pandemic impacts the Black community
Link: Click here | Time: 8 minutes | Media: Video | Source: Direct Relief, non-profit organization
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Racism manifests in different ways for different people in different environments. For many Black women, experiences with sexual and reproductive health reveal cross-cutting themes of racism, sexism, and classism, all expressed in the context of strong social norms and Monica Simpson, executive director of Sister Song, joins A Health Podyssey to discuss a paper her and coauthors published in the February 2022 issue of Health Affairs, an issue devoted entirely to the topic of racism and health prejudices regarding Black women and reproduction.
Link: Click here | Time: 32 minutes | Media: Video | Source: A Health Podyssey
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William “Sandy” Darity presents “Does Racism Make You Sick?: Health, Wealth and Race in America.” Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the Director of the Duke Consortium on Social Equity at Duke University. His research focuses on inequality by race, class, and ethnicity.
Link: Click here | Time: 32 minutes | Media: Video | Source: New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
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This article focuses on the history and influence of health disparities in a general sense.
Link: Click here | Time: 10 minutes | Media: Text | Source: LabXchange
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The article defines the phrase "social determinants of health" and examines the ways in which various social determinants of health influence the health of minoritized groups.
Link: Click here | Time: 8 minutes | Media: Text | Source: LabXchange
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In addition to encouraging students to develop ideas for addressing health disparities in their own communities, this lesson assists students in researching the origins and effects of health inequalities.
Link: Click here | Time: 60 minutes (class activity) | Media: Text | Source: LabXchange