Health Disparities in the Black Community: Past & Present
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You’re probably aware that the United States healthcare system is letting down many Black Americans. Today, Danielle looks at the historic reasons for distrust of medical establishment in the Black community as well as why these huge health disparities still exist.
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@EveryDayLifeChannel9777
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Read this book: Medical Apartheid by Harriett A. Washington.
@larellj2119
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
140 billion just approved for the war in Ukraine but yet those folks refuse to pay us for the Sjns of their forefathers and the Damaged done by Jim Crow. Wow White folks Shame on y'all. God will sort it out later tho how PLEASE BELIEVE
@Spiritbound2346
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Not to mention that much of early gynecological research was based on the torturous and forced sterilization of black female slaves
@Drbob369
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Mental health in inner cities has been catastrophic for decades bragging boasting terrible family life victims entitlement helplessness spell NPD pandemic raging 😅
@angeebb3080
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Just so inhumane!
@GETYOBAGMONIQUE
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
This hospital in my hometown is none for doing this. I went there around covid time to get put back on depression medicine so i can regulate my mental health quicker. I didnt even know that i was pregnant at the time, until they told . So they tested me for covid i was negative..Brought me upstairs put me in a room with a Transgender black male to female that was my roommate. I didnt even know she was trans until i heard her talk. And i started asking questions she admitted she never had bottom surgery..So then later she said i dont feel good. Mind you i was already vaccinated and never got covid ever. They tested my roomate comes out she had covid. I ended getting it. I was mad 😠. I asked them i thought you test eveyone before they come up they were loke we do. Im like something isnt adding up. I was like why you never told me she was trans? They said just as long as they identify as female it doesn't matter. Then i noticed the white females all had their own room. I said why didnt you put her in a room ny herself? They said they are in their room by selves for a different situation. Then they kept asking me for blood, when they already took 8 tubes so, i was no youre not taking any more blood from me. Because i knew they were trying to get more blood from me because i am O positive. So they said oh really? The nurse yelled out, shes refusing to not give blood! I was like yea i know my rights i have the right to refuse. So they brought security in and hade them. Tackle me down. And injected me with some type of drug. So they said its not working inject her again..they injected me three more times. I lost my baby. They also lied and said i was schizophrenic. They lied on their reports. I just had that misdiagnosed removed from my records. It wasnt easy i got acces to all my medical reports of the nurses taking down notes but they lied. I tried to sue lawyers wont represent me.
@spideraxis
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Instead of blaming White people for everything, how about addressing the unhealthy fried chicken they consume in volumes?
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October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
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@benchristenson2280
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Weak arguments IMHO, these are just assertions without data. Examples have no logic connections to the assertions of bias
@beverlycromwell9805
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
and then when the white man treated black people they use them for experienment
@kevinpoole4323
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Do Not Take anymore Vaccines , refer to Dr Francis Boyle Judy Mikavitz Dr David Martin Dr McCullough
@carynm.4662
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
I wish that the news reporting on these and other studies would emphasize policy recommendations & all of the probable reasons for the higher risks. I think those are overlooked.
@electrictofumuffins6384
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
They killed a lot of people with dehydration on respirators with no fluids for days and were incentivized to call it covid. Hospitals made billions.
@beaitrixc
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Thank you
@ossoduro7794
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
It's dishonest to exclude the tendency of the black community to make poor health choices about diet, behaving correctly, and planning for or prioritizing current and future events. The predisposed genetic risk to serious health problems is exasperated by behavioral differences in contrast to those outside the black community.
When you factor those things into the equation, we find the source of the disparities and where the real problems lie, prompting those who suffer from perceived injustices to face the fact that better choices lead to better health.
@nataliesenters4794
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
The racist have created poverty in the African American neighborhoods on purpose failing our people before we even had a chance how evil the whole world knows it…these racist gangs are very demonically evil they're definitely Satan's demons all you people do is taunt the lord with your devilish evil ways like your father Satan everyone knows all true colors they being exposed everyday all day America is the most racist, evil devilish country with heavy blood dug so deep soaked into this hell hole created none of you people mean a thing to god almighty you people know it get mental help please somewhere somehow I will be the first to pray for you all every last one of you need God asap it's an emergency..God is love tell us all who at it with the lord right now with no love at all for the father you people are very ungrateful for what we have done your days are definitely numbered so is that wicked witchh from hell marry Bryant all you people do is lies lies lies since the test of times..🙏🙏🙏🙏 sad but true🤷♀️
@alicecuriosityoftenleadsto6288
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
I've noticed an accompanying issue recently. Many minorities (including Women, ESL people, BIPOC etc) don't even know the extent to which they are being discriminated against until they have others tell them that their treatment isn't the norm.
I spent many years thinking the way I was being treated medically was normal. It wasn't until I saw how wealthy people and white Men in general were treated that I learned it wasn't just the way doctors were.
I wonder how many people underestimate the bias of others due to lack of any other reference.
I know that my Hispanic ex boyfriend had no idea how many racists were in our small town. He told me he hadn't experienced it there.
In reality the racists just only talked behind his and other minorities backs, made racist jokes only around other white people etc.
It makes me wonder how many people are just used to being treated a certain way and don't even know how messed up it is or that anyone else is treated any different.
P.S. Im fully aware that most minorities experience a lot of overt/obvious racism. Im just pointing out that this is an issue also and its important that we advocate for others and make sure to talk with others when we see people being done dirty.
Call out the jacka×÷ telling racist jokes, the doctor ignoring the person in pain, etc.
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October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
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@rootsm3
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
I never see black bodies in textbooks.
@totallyjamdown247365
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
So applicable today in the UK also……. Thank You
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October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Thank you, PBS! This is an excellent video to present to my undergraduate students in Public Health. They will take this info and use it to help change the world!
@davidfranklin4656
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
seems like a pretty racist video to blame others for disparities one may have!
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@smileytuna
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
As a worker in a "place of last resort" (emergency room tech) this issue is on my mind constantly.
I also work with a patient population that is impoverished and in majority black.
The subject is even more complex than anyone who doesn't work in the system can imagine. I see racist bullshit on the daily with my coworkers. And I see how lack of education and access to preventive healthcare devastates the community I live and work in.
It's a closed loop system that creates bias as well as perpetuates it.
As we move into another covid outbreak I have to live with these issues every day. Please be kind to us on the front lines we're doing the best we can.
@dude999642
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Do black people FOLLOW the CDC guidelines as well as, say, Asians do?
@yeerrr2726
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
That cardi is fly
@timothykramer2551
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Look at your calendar why you going backwards history is history we are in the future look at the future not the past
@timothykramer2551
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
A lot of black people don't like going to the doctor cuz they don't want to be tested for drugs games killing so that's why they don't want to go to doctor cuz they're going to be tested that's worth any white people being in Games 2 so what is your point it's all a bunch of Lies
@timothykramer2551
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
This a big lie…. you're trying to make white people look bad and make yourself look better than everybody else just because a person's black doesn't make any difference and never did this is not the 1940s black people are not victims white people are more victims than you are
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October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
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@businessneverpersonal1878
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Why when it comes to white people they always are compared to black people ,that alone by its self is Racism…. They don't compare
them to any other race ,and there are so many other to compare them to….
@businessneverpersonal1878
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Racism is a Billion Dollar Business
@nmoney6655
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
She was crying though
@nmoney6655
October 29, 2024 at 1:18 pm
I have diabetes and I’m black my parents say I don’t have health insurance