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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate youth residential treatment facilities operated by multiple national health care companies, alleging evidence of ...
Forcible sterilization of Indigenous women as young as 15 years old occurred from 1970 to 1976 by the Indian Health Service as revealed in researcher Jane Lawrence's paper "The Indian Health Service and the Sterilization of Native American Women." [2] Many other examples exist in American history of the unethical actions of health care ...
The experience opened Uché’s eyes to the many ways systemic racism plays a critical (and often fatal) role in the lives of Black Americans. "Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in ...
More than one-fourth of Hispanic adults in the United States lack a usual health care provider, and a similar proportion report obtaining no health care information from medical personnel in the past year. Latino adults receive information from an alternative source, such as television and radio, based on a PHC survey.
In fact, in April 2020 the Johns Hopkins University and American Community Survey noted from responses by 131 predominantly Black communities in the US that the infection rate of Black Americans was 137.5 per 100,000 individuals, more than three times that of White Americans. [16] As the pandemic has progressed, racial inequalities have persisted.
Research has extensively documented the differences between the Black and white experience in the US, from wealth and education to incarceration.
This is a list of protests and unrest in the United States between 2020 and 2023 against systemic racism towards black people in the United States, such as in the form of police violence. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Following the murder of George Floyd , unrest broke out in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area on May 26, 2020, and quickly spread across the ...
The actress teamed up with the American Lung Association to spotlight how communities of color have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus. Queen Latifah gets real about healthcare ...