The 19-COVID pandemic shows why we need to, and how we end the injustice races in Health

senseless and violent death of George Floyd has rightly triggered a national outpouring of indignation. Multiracial waves of protesters have called for an end to racism and racial injustice, especially for American blacks. In response to a pandemic sad, premature death Floyd and the urgency of other critical dimension of racial injustice priced to: health inequality in America. It ‘about time that the disproportionate effects, unjust and unnatural to end the blacks in American disease and other people of color. The COVID-like-no-discrimination 19. But the disease spread rapidly among the discriminated. Preliminary data indicate that the counties mainly blacks are three times the rate of COVID-19 infections and six times the rate of death compared with predominantly white districts. Higher rates of diseases such as heart disease, cancer, increasing obesity, diabetes and hypertension in communities of color their risk for COVID-19, in particular, and an overall drop in life expectancy for blacks men in four years than whites. The drivers of health inequalities for decades amply documented. A constellation of socio-economic disadvantage in jobs, housing and education, for example, the weakening of community resilience so many causes of human suffering (including pandemics and violence). Many hospitals and health settings are viewed as inhospitable to people of different races and cultures, with doctors also shows good intentions often unconsciously prejudice and mistrust that aggravates. It need not be so. We can rotate through four concrete measures anger really shared. First, the US needs to maintain quality data systems for communities of color to follow medical outcomes, especially during health crises. This unacceptably lack of current COVID-19 of racial and ethnic data or weakened testing, prevention and awareness efforts for American blacks and indigenous and immigrant communities has been delayed. guidelines for a long time for all CDC laboratories require these COVID-19 test data have recently announced implementation should help the future. So, we need efforts to revitalize health insurance to an estimated 29 million uninsured Americans and provide basic access to health care for all to expand. Despite the progress made under the Affordable Care Act, blacks and Hispanic Americans remain uninsured were 1.5 and 2.5 times more likely to either. higher insurance rates for Native Americans and some Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander subpopulations are also remarkable. The expansion of Medicaid to support low-income, mostly minority of the population in the 14 states that do not. Future waves of Congressional funding, while COVID-19 and beyond must explicitly preventable deaths for people of color are meant to give an account to track your results and their results. We need to change how health care professionals for patients with different backgrounds from their care. The health and medical systems should encourage all appropriate standards culturally and linguistically take cultural competence and effective care for people from different backgrounds. Being strengthened by defining in disadvantaged areas, it has community health centers. The force medical work must be diversified to look more like the patients are operated and overcome the inconsistencies in dealing with unconscious prejudice and discrimination. Finally, it is important that we revitalize public health departments and the labor force, long neglected and underfunded. As a starting point can be short-term tracer COVID-19 contact are long-term, health care workers who face social difficulties (eg suboptimal housing), physical health (eg, diabetes prevention , smoking cessation), emotional well-being and environmental health. These workers understand that instead of starting in a doctor’s office, health flows from the communities where people live, work, learn, play and pray. We have to build walls to break the cooperation of other key sectors of society, including housing, education, transport, religious organizations, and yes, criminal justice and health. Organizations need to protect key workers, Americans especially blacks and other people of color, non-pandemic COVID 19 have the privilege of working from home while. As the son of an immigrant family, and as a former Secretary of State for Health in the Obama administration, I had the honor of both healthy people in 2020 to monitor (a time-honored goals of the Roadmap national updated each decade) and the first HHS action Plan of racial and ethnic health disparities reduce. Thousands of organizations and individuals dedicated to these goals, which are coupled to the Affordable Care Act, some progress have contributed. But to honor Mr. Floyd legacy, we can do more. Together we can make a bold commitment to a just health. It may end racial injustice in health shaping the future for everyone. As once said the Reverend Martin Luther King, “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
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