From HealthAffairs, Image: HealthAffairs, February 15, 2022
"Members of racial and ethnic minority groups have long suffered from health inequities in the United States. These inequities result, in large part, from racial and ethnic minority populations' inequitable access to health care, which persists because of structural racism in health care policy.
Racism includes a complex array of social structures, interpersonal interactions, and beliefs by which the group in power categorizes people into socially constructed 'races' and creates a racial hierarchy in which racial and ethnic minority groups are disempowered, devalued, and denied equal access to resources."
These words come from the opening paragraphs of one of four overview papers in the February 2022 issue of Health Affairs, an issue devoted entirely to the topic of racism and health.
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