Food deserts are a public health crisis engineered by institutionalized racism in America. Check out our infographic summarizing cardiovascular impacts & general strategies to advocate for patients experiencing food insecurity @MClerkship@catheri18173530@CarrieSha3@peejwalker
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Recent article by Ogedegbe et al in @JAMANetworkOpen looked the racial/ethnic disparities in hospitalization/mortality during the COVID19 in NYC. It is interesting that black and Hispanic pts were more likely to test positive than white pts,
@PalilloAnthony It would be interesting to see how COVID-19 quarantine has differentially affected income between low-income vs high-income populations
"with subsequent within-home transmission in high-density, low-income households.” A clear demonstration of how the privileges of income, race, and employment can directly impact health #socialdeterminantsofhealth#SDOH#HealthDisparities
Increasingly medical technologies are gaining attention for entrenching racism. In this 2019 @ScienceMagazine paper the authors find that a widely used algorithm to allocate more resources to "sicker" patients discriminates against Black people @MClerkshipscience.sciencemag.org/content/366/64…
sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Recent data shows differences in COVID-19 testing within New York City by percentage of white population and socioeconomic status