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Integrated Mind Map, non-Hispanic Black women die during or within one…
Integrated Mind Map
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Less transportation options in Black communities; harder for them to get to doctors appointments or to get meds when sick
Lower socioeconomic classes have a hard time paying for health care, so they avoid getting help when they need it due to financial barriers
Black Chicagoans are more likely to get evicted and have to live on the street; Chicagoan weather is also brutal for people who aren't housed and can lead to health issues
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Fresh fruits/vegs are too expensive or just not even available in walking distance of black neighborhoods
Black women in Chicago have a significantly higher incidences of cancer diagnoses compared to Black men, while both groups experience higher rates of cancer diagnoses than other racial groups in the city
Black women often face greater barriers to accessing mental health treatment compared to Black men, primarily due to a combination of factors like cultural stigma, lack of culturally competent providers
Race is a construct made by society to group people with similar physical characteristics, ethnicities, and/or shared experiences into defining boxes
Gender is a spectrum of how someone wants to express themselves, typically in female or male roles, but not always- not the same as SEX, which is determined at birth based off of biological chromosomes and gentalia
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the life expectancy gap between Black Chicagoans and non-Black Chicagoans, which is 9.2 years and rising. That gap widens even further when comparing specific neighborhoods – for example, it jumps to 14.6 years between predominately white Edison Park (83.1 years) and majority Black West Garfield Park (68.5 years).
non-Hispanic Black women die during or within one year of pregnancy almost six times more often than non-Hispanic White women
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Quote from a Black Chicagoan “where I feel I see a lot of disparity is not having access to insurance that really decreases the quality of care. There are a lot of restrictions in terms of where patients can go with specific types of insurance or if they don’t have insurance at all.”
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