Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Guided Concept Map #7 - Coggle Diagram
Guided Concept Map #7
Health Equity
to convert the vision of health equity into a visible reality, health equity research scientists must move beyond discussion, observation, and description
Health equity scientists will need to work much more directly on eradicating racism as a fundamental cause of health differences between Black and White Americans
The lack of progress in achieving health equity suggests that health equity scientists must become more multidimensional, transdisciplinary, and translational in our scientific approach to reducing health disparities
Health equity researchers must move quickly to embrace late-stage, T4 trans-lational science
Late-stage T4 Translational Research involves studies that evaluate outcomes and effectiveness in populations, assess the benefit to communities through public health policies and programs, and adopts proven interventions’ best practices in communities
need to move farther “upstream” to focus on reducing the social determinants of Black health inequity
AHRQ National Healthcare Quality and Disparities report shows that since 2000, more healthcare quality measures have declined than have improved for Black Americans relative to While Americans
-
Blackness
Health differences are often due to economic and social conditions that are more common among Black Americans than whites
-
“weathering” - experiences of early health deterioration as a consequence of the cumulative impact of repeated experience with social or economic adversity and political marginalization erodes health
-
Emerging research indicates that younger Black Americans are living with or dying of many conditions typically found in white Americans at older ages
When diseases start early, they can lead to death earlier
Anti-Black Racism
Racism is a social determinant of Black health and social determinants are political problems. Political problems require political solutions
Psychological, behavioral, social, and economic factors all contribute to Black-White differences in health. However, there has been a noticeable increase in academic discussions about the role of systemic racism in producing and perpetuating racial health inequities
Systemic racism is a political ideology and economic strategy based on the fictitious beliefthat White people are inherently superior to Black people
From the viewpoint of Black Americans, racial discrimination and anti-Black implicit bias are constantly operational
Anti-Black systemic racism produced the idea of race, the need for the attribution process that identifies acts of racial discrimination, and the negative cognitive schemas that are the foundation for anti-Black implicit bias
The COVID-19 pandemic is one example of how systemic racism contributes to inequities between Black and White Americans