February 2022

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...

By Katherine Ellison, Illustration: Eric Petersen/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 19, 2022 While seeking help for her teenage daughter’s anxiety, Barbara Griswold says she called 73 doctors listed in her insurance plan’s network. Not one was available for an appointment within two months. Many never called back. Some had retired. Others weren’t taking insurance. Several weren’t seeing adolescents. Still others had disconnected numbers. And some had died. After three weeks...

It's undisputed! The pandemic has increased the level of stress for millions. It has also illuminated the need for resilience strategies to help us cope with the effects of stress. Strategies we can use personally and strategies we can teach to others. Although we are united on the need for resilience to buffer the effects of stress, we are divided on what works. Many have suggested that building resilience is like strengthening a muscle. Unfortunately, it has not produced effective...

"The ACE Study made perfect sense to me knowing what I was seeing in the children and teens I was working with as well as with the people in my own community. It was like someone gave me the answers to a puzzle."

WHEN : Feb. 23, 2022, from 10 a.m.-11 a.m. PT / 1-2 p.m. ET Racial and ethnic minorities in America experience a lower quality of health services, and are less likely to receive even routine medical procedures than are white Americans, a seminal report led by Brian Smedley, Ph.D., concluded in 2003. Nearly two decades since that damning Institute of Medicine finding, the fundamental problems of systemic racism in the U.S. health care system remain unchanged, just one aspect of a much broader...

David Remnick, Photo: Andres Serrano/The New Yorker, The New Yorker, February 19, 2022 It’s important to say it up front: I can’t claim to approach Henry Louis Gates, Jr.—or Skip, as he’s known—as a subject of objective journalistic inquiry. We’ve known each other first as colleagues at The New Yorker , where he wrote the Profiles that make up his collection “ Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man ,” and then as friends. Still, I don’t think it requires the prejudice of friendship to...

By Arthur C. Brooks, Illustration: Jan Buchczik, The Atlantic, February 17, 2022 I magine yourself 10 years from now. Will you be happier or less happy than you are today? I ask my graduate students—average age, late 20s—this question every year. The majority think they will be happier. But when I ask about their prediction for 50 years from now, it seems a lot less rosy. Being in their late 70s doesn’t sound so great to most of them. They are shocked when I show them the data on what...

By Alan Rappeport, Photo: Montinique Monroe/The New York Times, The New York Times, February 21, 2022 For Brandon Smith, a fourth-generation cattle rancher from Texas, the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that President Biden signed into law nearly a year ago was long-awaited relief. The legislation included $4 billion of debt forgiveness for Black and other “socially disadvantaged” farmers, a group that has endured decades of discrimination from banks and the federal government. Mr. Smith, a...

By Nick Anderson and Susan Svrluga, Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 19, 2022 Appalled at efforts to limit what they can teach about race and other sensitive subjects, faculty leaders at prominent public universities around the country have rallied in recent weeks behind resolutions to reaffirm academic freedom and denounce legislation that would undermine it. These declarations show that the heated debate over state regulation of lessons on race,...

More attention is paid to ACEs’ effects than to causes, inequities, or interventions. Incorporating ACEs into broader frameworks of determinants of health is a better way to go.

By The HOPE Team, 2/22/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Dr. Kamilah B. Legette , joins HOPE’s Director of Training and Technical Assistance, Amanda Winn, for the third vlog in our new series, HOPE Block by Block. This series highlights the work of Black practitioners, scholars, researchers, and community activists during the month of February. In this third episode, Dr. Legette will address the HOPE building block of relationships. The relationship building block is about...

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