Healthcare Inequality
Explore how institutional racism pervades our healthcare systems, the physical and mental effect it has on our bodies, and effective action to close this gap.
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Explore how institutional racism pervades our healthcare systems, the physical and mental effect it has on our bodies, and effective action to close this gap.
Related disciplines: Health & Life Sciences (Medicine, Biology, Psychology)
We will focus on current and pressing manifestations of this, such as the disparity in Black Asian and ethnic minority COVID deaths, a 5x greater mortality rate for Black women in childbirth, and mental health support which often skips past cultural differences and fails to account for the long-term effects of racial discrimination.
Abena, Module Leader
How can we improve Black and Ethnic Minority mental health support?
EXAMPLE QUESTION AND SOURCES
Abena is a medical undergraduate at St Anne’s College of the University of Oxford. She has been involved in internships at NHS England and founder of the Black Medics of Oxford University group.
Abena | Module Leader for Healthcare Inequality
Book
The Health Gap – Michael Marmot (2015)