MFP/ANA e-Newsletter: Jun 24, 2022

HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES

Structural Racism In Historical And Modern US Health Care Policy (opens new window)

The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated and amplified the harsh reality of health inequities experienced by racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Members of these groups have disproportionately been infected and died from COVID-19, yet they still lack equitable access to treatment and vaccines. Read more (opens new window)

First Nations mothers are more likely to die during childbirth. More First Nations midwives could close this gap (opens new window)

While Australia is one of the safest places in the world to give birth, First Nations women are three times more likely to die in childbirth than other Australian women (17.5 vs 5.5 per 100,000 women from 2012-2019). And First Nations infants are almost twice as likely to die in the first month of life (16% vs 9% per 1,000), with preterm birth the biggest cause of mortality. Read more (opens new window)

The mental health crisis harming AAPI LGBTQ youth (opens new window)

AAPI LGBT+ youth are struggling right now. A new report from the Trevor Project found that 40 percent of AAPI LGBT+ youth have considered suicide in the past year. What’s going on here? We talk to Myeshia Price, a researcher from the Trevor Project, to understand the factors at play. Read more (opens new window)

To capture racism’s impact on health, one epidemiologist suggests going beyond conventional methods (opens new window)

Adkins-Jackson and her colleagues published a guide in 2021 to measuring structural racism for epidemiologists and other researchers. The authors call on researchers to use variables that capture the multiple dimensions of structural racism. Read more (opens new window)