HAN member David Ansell with Rush University Medical Center, Kristen Pallok, and Fernando De Maio wrote a case study titled Structural Racism — A 60-Year-Old Black Woman with Breast Cancer and propose three critical strategies for addressing structural racism in health care.
“Structural racism refers to the ways in which historical and contemporary racial inequities in outcomes are perpetuated by social, economic, and political systems, including mutually reinforcing systems of health care, education, housing, employment, the media, and criminal justice… Structural racism compounds the health effects of poverty and other forms of oppression by concentrating poverty in black communities within racially segregated neighborhoods with limited health care options.”