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- Title
Collective Apathy and Racial Health Disparities in the USA: the Need for Empathy-Building and Examples of Positive Change.
- Authors
DuBois, James M.
- Abstract
Moreover, a subtle form of racism persists that sustains the conditions that give rise to health disparities. In 1906, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the health disparities between Blacks and Whites in the USA are largely matters of condition - sanitation, education, and economics - rather than racial traits and tendencies.[1] He wrote this to challenge the explicitly racist view that Black people were dying at higher rates than Whites because they are inferior. Health disparities among Black persons in the US and addressing racism in the health care system.
- Subjects
HEALTH equity; RACIAL inequality; APATHY; PSYCHOLOGISTS; EMPATHY
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 7, p2123
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-021-06673-0