Week Two: Discussion. Health Disparity
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Read the following article:
· Strategies To Empower Communities To Reduce Health Disparities
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5554943/
Watch the following videos:
· An Interview with Harvard University professor David Williams who talks about health disparities in the U.S., and how we can help to reduce (5 minutes)
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· How racism makes us sick | David R. Williams (18 minutes)
Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures like income and education to reveal how factors like implicit bias, residential segregation and negative stereotypes create and sustain inequality. In this eye-opening talk, Williams presents evidence for how racism is producing a rigged system — and offers hopeful examples of programs across the US that are working to dismantle discrimination.
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After reading the article Strategies to Empower Communities to Reduce Health Disparities and watching the two assigned videos for Week Two, please define health disparity. How does race matter in health status?
