Race: Health & Health Care

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This board explores racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care. Included are images from the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment. There are also graphs depicting the manifestations of more subtle forms of racial discrimination, such as those that illustrate average life expectancy, various disease rates, and other health outcomes by race. In terms of health care, the board surveys the enormous gaps observed in treatment and insurance coverage based on race.
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by The Sociological Cinema
Health - Percentage of uninsured, ages 18-64, 2009 Source: Kaiser Family Foundation; This chart is from an infographic that shows inequality among women by race, education, and political leadership. Source: Center for American Progress
Health - Percentage of uninsured, ages 18-64, 2009…
Health - 61% of African Americans age 50-64 have high blood pressure - 23% of African Americans/Blacks age 50-64 have diabetes - The leading causes of death for African Americans/Blacks age 65 and older (heart desease, cancer, and stroke) have been decreasing since 1999. - 43% of African Americans/Blacks age 35-64 are obese compared to 36.4% of Non-Hispanic Whites. Source: The Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (crge.umd.edu)
Health - 61% of African Americans age 50-64 have…
This is an example of Essentialism as well as an example of how NOT to talk about race, and it serves as an example of conflating race with culture. The page is from a nursing textbook: Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning, Volume I (2nd Edition) by Pearson Education. "A client's culture influences their response and beliefs about pain. Some common cultural differences related to pain are listed here. ARABS/MUSLIMS -May not request pain medicine but instead thank Allah..."
This is an example of Essentialism as well as an…
Refusal to Provide Medical Care by Race We also asked whether respondents had been denied service altogether by doctors and other providers. Nineteen percent (19%) had been refused treatment by a doctor or other provider because of their transgender or gender non-conforming status. Twenty-four percent (24%) of transgender women reported having been refused treatment altogether and 20% of transgender men did. Respondents who reported they had lost jobs due to bias (36%); American Indians (36%)
Refusal to Provide Medical Care by Race We also…
J. Marion Sims Didn't Think Black Women Felt Pain The "father of modern gynecology" experimented non-consensually on black women using unethical and painful methods. Why Is My Curriculum White? Source: luu.org.uk/campaign/wimcw
J. Marion Sims Didn't Think Black Women Felt Pain…
Death Rates of Black and White Women in 2015 At almost every age, black women still have higher death rates Source: CDC / Urban Institute
Death Rates of Black and White Women in 2015 At…
Death Rates of Black and White Men in 2015 At almost every age, black men still have higher death rates Source: CDC / Urban Institute
Death Rates of Black and White Men in 2015 At…
U.S. state-specific healthy life expectancy in years at age 65 years by race, 2007–2009 The figure above shows state-specific healthy life expectancy (HLE) in years at age 65 years, by race, in the United States during 2007-2009. By race, HLE estimates for whites were lowest among southern states. For blacks, HLE estimates were comparatively low throughout the United States, except for a few southwestern states. For whites aged 65 years, HLE varied between a low of 11.0 years in West Virginia a
U.S. state-specific healthy life expectancy in…
Deaths from Opioids per 100,000, 2016 Source: CDC
Deaths from Opioids per 100,000, 2016 Source: CDC
More Black and White Men Are Dying Source: National Vital Statistics System / Sarah Frostenson
More Black and White Men Are Dying Source…
Nonelderly (18 to 64) Black Americans Are More Likely to Have Past-Due Medical Debt Source: McKernan, Braga, and Karas calculations from the 2015 National Financial Culpability Study
Nonelderly (18 to 64) Black Americans Are More…
Before the Civil War, some psychiatrists diagnosed slaves with what they called drapetomania: "a mental illness in which the slave possessed an irrational desire for freedom and a tendency to try to escape." American physician Samuel A. Cartwright described the disorder in 1851.
Before the Civil War, some psychiatrists diagnosed…
"Blacks were believed to sleep more, feel pain less, endure heat better and cold worse, and be more prone to fevers...but resistant to yellow fever and malaria. Their skins were thought thicker, their brains smaller; they were characterized as sexually precocious and intellectually retarded. Yet in a familiar but illogical leitmotiv, treatments for whites were devised, adopted, or rejected based upon the black response to therapeutics." ~ Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid
"Blacks were believed to sleep more, feel pain…
Maternal Mortality in the United States Millennium development goal set a global commitment to reduce maternal mortality. The U.S. did not meet the target. One reason the U.S. has not achieved the goal: racial disparities in health outcomes. Black women in the U.S. are dying at a rate 4 times higher than white women. Source: Maternal Health Task Force / WHO Trends in Maternal Mortality, 1990-2015 / CDC Pregnancy Mortality
Maternal Mortality in the United States…
Infant Death Rates, by Maternal Age: White, Black, and Mexican Mothers, U.S., 2013. Source: Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Public Use File, Centers for Disease Control. *Infant death rates per 1,000 live births for non-Hispanic white (N = 1,925,847), non-Hispanic black (N = 533,341), and Mexican origin (N = 501,390) mothers. / h/t: Philip N. Cohen
Infant Death Rates, by Maternal Age: White, Black…
How Are We Likely to Die: Percentage Causes of Death By Race/Ethnicity | Click on this image for a larger image | via Norton Sociology
How Are We Likely to Die: Percentage Causes of…
Hypertension Prevalence, African and European Descent Populations: Ages 35-64, Age Adjusted [click on this image to find a short post and video, which consider the myth that African Americans experience higher rates of hypertension because of the harsh conditions their ancestors endured on slave ships crossing the Atlantic]
Hypertension Prevalence, African and European…
Infant Mortality Rates for Mothers Age 20 and Over by Race/Ethnicity and Education, 2001-2003
Infant Mortality Rates for Mothers Age 20 and Over…
Infant Mortality Is Three Times Higher for Baltimore's Black Babies Source: Baltimore Neighborhood Indicator Alliance
Infant Mortality Is Three Times Higher for…
Black Residents of Baltimore Can Expect to Die Younger Life expectancy at birth Source: Baltimore Neighborhood Indicator Alliance
Black Residents of Baltimore Can Expect to Die…