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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-12-11
pubmed:abstractText
Recent reports reaffirm huge disparities in the health of blacks compared to other Americans. These disparities persist in part because of the current attempt by health policy makers to frame racially based health differences in non-racial terms. Yet an historical analysis shows that since ancient times, blacks have been the victims of racism in the biomedical sciences; health-system discrimination and deprivation; and later, medical and scientific exploitation. Race- and class-based structuring of the health delivery system has combined with other factors, including physicians' attitudes conditioned by their participation in slavery, and the scientific myth of black biological and intellectual inferiority, to establish a "slave health deficit" that has never been corrected. Until the persistent institutional racism and racial discrimination in health policy, health delivery, and medical educational systems are eradicated, African-Americans will continue to experience poor health outcome.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1049-2089
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
278-96
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2130908-African Americans, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-African Continental Ancestry Group, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-Civil Rights, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-Europe, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-European Continental Ancestry Group, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-Health Services Accessibility, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-Health Status, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-History, 15th Century, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-History, 16th Century, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-History, 18th Century, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-History, 19th Century, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-History, 20th Century, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-History, Ancient, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-History, Medieval, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-Morbidity, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-Mortality, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-Race Relations, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-Sociology, Medical, pubmed-meshheading:2130908-United States
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Race, biology, and health care: reassessing a relationship.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN 37208.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Review, Historical Article