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Policywise

Social Determinants Digest: Institutions and racial disparities over time

June 4, 2021 Health Disparities,  health equity,  Racism,  Social Inequity

A closer look at how to explain racial disparities that persist over time and begin to better understand and combat structural racism.

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Shift the conversation: Racism – not race – is the problem in healthcare

December 18, 2020 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  General Internal Medicine,  Race,  Racism,  Under-Represented Minorities

Dr. Salman Ahmed discusses how racial effects on health are better explained as racism’s effects on health.

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Social Determinants Digest: Promoting health equity through research

October 2, 2020 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Racism,  Research,  Social Determinants Digest,  Social Determinants of Health

How to define social determinants of health and ways that research can better consider sociological constructs to change perception.

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Influencing health: How where we live, learn, work and play matters

September 10, 2020 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Health Disparities,  Racism,  Social Determinants Digest,  Social Determinants of Health

Learn more about our new blog series focused on social determinants of health and their impact on health, quality-of-life, and risks.

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No more silence: Confronting racism in medicine 

June 19, 2020 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Medicine,  Prejudice,  Racism

As part of a new generation of healthcare workers tasked to provide care for everyone, regardless of race, gender, insurance status, or disability, medical professionals

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Racism: Not a pandemic, but a chronic disease

June 12, 2020 African American,  Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Coronavirus,  COVID-19,  Haley Jackson Manley,  Racism

It’s more than just semantics that irks me when people talk about racism as a pandemic. A pandemic implies an outbreak. A disease that is

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From the Labs: Image of the Month

Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlNiMWHUhbc

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