How Telehealth Could Improve — or Worsen — Racial Disparities
While telehealth may be a panacea for access to healthcare, particularly in COVID times, we should be concerned that patients of color may be left behind.
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Read more: Expendable Lives and COVID-19 Expendable Lives and COVID-19
Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
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Read more: When Health Advice Is Hard to Come by, BIPOC Suffer the Consequences When Health Advice Is Hard to Come by, BIPOC Suffer the Consequences
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the tradeoffs at stake for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) seeking reliable health advice.
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Read more: The Two Pandemics Facing Asian Americans: COVID-19 and Xenophobia The Two Pandemics Facing Asian Americans: COVID-19 and Xenophobia
During the COVID-19 pandemic, instead of trying to extinguish racist attitudes, the Trump administration has spearheaded ways to “other” Asian Americans.
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Read more: Racial Inclusivity in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Racial Inclusivity in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
African Americans know, perhaps the most, what it means to be the first to be heavily recruited yet neglected by biomedicine.
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Read more: COVID-19 and the ‘Essential’ Yet Underappreciated Front-Line Health Care Worker COVID-19 and the ‘Essential’ Yet Underappreciated Front-Line Health Care Worker
On the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic response, there is an often forgotten workforce that is largely Black and Brown and female.
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Read more: Black Women Can’t Breathe Black Women Can’t Breathe
Racism in health care, expressed through implicit and explicit biases, is the ultimate form of suffocation.
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Read more: Understanding the Role of Race in Health: A New Digital Symposium Understanding the Role of Race in Health: A New Digital Symposium
Today, medicine and the health care system embody discourses of power that rival the law. Will these discourses inevitably serve to oppress BIPOC?
