MFP/ANA e-Newsletter: February 18, 2022

HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES

Healing the Hurt: Indigenous women lead campaign to educate health-care providers on culturally safe care (opens new window)

The voices of Indigenous mothers who have faced discrimination, anti-Indigenous racism and culturally unsafe care at the hands of health-care providers are being brought to the forefront in a new campaign project called Healing the Hurt: Caring for Indigenous Mothers and Infants. Read more (opens new window)

Nearly 90% of Black nurses in Ontario have experienced racism on the job: report (opens new window)

The Black Nurses Task Force (BNTF), part of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, was formed in June 2020. The task force comprises 17 Black nurses and nursing students from various sectors of the health care system. The 72-page report details the anti-Black racism and discrimination experienced by nurses in Ontario and outlines 19 recommendations to eliminate anti-Black racism in the industry. Read more (opens new window)

Beyond Diversity — Time for New Models of Health (opens new window)

Despite the ability to collect and analyze far richer health data than ever before, public health and medical experts have failed to use that information to develop new conceptual models for health. Although data from research inform clinical decision making, many possibilities suggested by health data are lost when we insist on fitting those data into our existing health constructs rather than building new constructs on their basis. Read more (opens new window)

U.S. schools failing in fight against youth mental health crisis, new report card finds (opens new window)

Young people’s mental health is in such bad shape that several of the country’s leading pediatric groups called it a national emergency last fall. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy even issued an advisory – a move reserved for the most urgent public health challenges. Read more (opens new window)