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HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This week’s recommended Health and Wellness Activity
HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES
Drug Overdose Deaths Rise, Disparities Widen, Differences Grew by Race, Ethnicity, and Other Factors (opens new window)
Drug overdose data show troubling trends and widening disparities between different population groups. In just one year, overdose death rates (number of drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people) increased 44% for Black people and 39% for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. Most people who died by overdose had no evidence of substance use treatment before their deaths. In fact, a lower proportion of people from racial and ethnic minority groups received treatment, compared with White people. Read more (opens new window)
How Racism Affects the Brain (opens new window)
Like sexual assault, bullying, and other violent or traumatic experiences, racial discrimination takes a long-term toll on its victim’s mental health. A new study from Emory University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences explains just how the stress of racism changes the brain and increases an individual’s risk of medical issues such as asthma, diabetes, and chronic pain. Read more (opens new window)
Trauma from Back Home Has Long-Lasting Effects on Migrants (opens new window)
Rutayisire works as a mental health counsellor at the CCVT, offering support to survivors of war, torture, genocide, crimes against humanity, or other human rights violations. In her experience, clients have often gone through a variety of trauma, such as gender violence or political persecution: Read more (opens new window)
Popular map for exploring environmental health disparities, vulnerabilities in Washington gets an update (opens new window)
Since it first launched in 2019, Washington state’s Environmental Health Disparities Map has been used to help decisionmakers and government agencies engage with overburdened communities to clean up contamination, improve buildings and electric grids, plant trees and many other projects. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Dr. Marie Smith-East was among Sigma Nursing’s selected speakers to kick off their 33rd International Nursing Research Congress Conference. Dr. Smith-East's presentation was titled, “More Than Maps: Applications of Geospatial Analyses to Improve Access to Mental Healthcare.”
Dr. Rolanda Johnson is the Co-Director for the Academy for Diverse Emerging Nurse Leaders, a new fellowship program for nurse faculty and health care leaders developed at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. This unique leadership academy is taught by experienced faculty and health care leaders from diverse backgrounds, and is specifically designed to serve the needs of new and emerging nurse leaders and faculty.
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Season 2, episode 9 of “Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up!” is available at emfp.org/news/mental-health-trailblazers-podcast.
Why are maternal mortality rates in America, the wealthiest country in the world, the worst amongst economically advanced countries? And why, despite knowing the reasons mothers are dying in the process of giving life and what should be done to improve things, are things getting worse, especially for women of color? MFP Alumna Dr. Agnes White provides context and offers solutions for what our host Indrias Kassaye suggests is one of great paradoxes of life in America today.
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