PUBH 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Mass Incarceration, What Can I Do (The Corrs Song), Health Equity
15 Feb 2017
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View that every deserves equal rights and opportunities. There are inequities in health that are unavoidable, unnecessary, and unjust. Results of practices /polices that create unequal distribution in money, power, and resources among communities based on race, class, gender, place, etc. To ensure everyone has highest capability of having good health, we must address social determinants of health and equity. Racism determines opportunity and value of individuals based on race can be attributed to health inequity sicker color others health: unfairly disadvantages some individuals, while unfairly advantaging. More than 30% of medical costs faced by blacks, hispanics, and asian americans. Racism and other (cid:498)ism(cid:499)s determine the distribution of the social determinants of. They don"t have as good of access to health care, so these populations end up. There"s an unconscious racial bias among clinicians leads to poorer that"s important to ph. Mass incarceration of primarily black and hispanic males. This discrimination and inequity undermines the social and community fabric.
