Racism & Health Justice
Slideshow by Krisha, Caroline, and Bahja
What is this slideshow about?
This slideshow is about the difficulties people of color go through, from financial to intellectual health. There are many problems people of color go through in these categories and we proposed solutions on how to help. The words colored this are links you can click!
Physical
Health
How does this physically affect People of color?
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How can
we help?
People of color receive lower quality of healthcare and bad medicine because of lower rates of health coverage and biases/stereotypes put on people. In this article by the New York Times you can see more into it.
A new center called, ACA are trying to help those in need for the proper help, this article goes more in depth about it.
Environmental Health
People of color are placed in extremely bad housing. Such as near power plants and are exposed to poisonous water. In the UK, black british children are exposed to up to 30% more air pollution than white british children which could affect their health and life span.
How are people of color environmentally affected?
How can we help?
The graph above shows that latinx americans are exposed to 63% more pollution than people who are non hispanic white americans. It also shows that black americans are exposed to 56% more pollution than white americans. And white americans are exposed to 17% less pollution than the other races
We can help by spreading awareness on this situation and raise money for the people in need.
Financial
How does financial health connect to racism?
Financial health is connected to racism because poc are normally housed in low income neighborhoods, Because they have low paying jobs
How does financial health affect health justice?
Health
Here is a video that explains systemic racism.
Info about financial health 1:16
Financial health effects health justice because of many factors like health care, health emergencies, disabilities, mental health, and medication. All of these different factors can be very expensive, and not all people can afford to pay their medical bills
Social Health
How are people of color socially affected?
How can we help?
People of color are getting a lot more recognition with the rise of social media and the Black Lives Matter Movement. With tiktok and instagram, people are sharing and spreading awareness for people of color. A lot of small groups such as indigineous people and Yemen are getting a lot more recognition thanks to social media. But with social media there are also some downsides. Now the awareness is good but videos of police brutality are also very scary. Many people are starting to get more afraid of being near a police officer.
Not only should you attend local protests but make sure you sign some petitions. If you ever need to educate yourself more, you can always ask a friend, or click this link for an article to see how you can educate yourself.
Occupational
Health
Occupational Health is connected to health justice because if you don't have a well paying job, it can be hard to pay for medical emergencies.
It can also make it where families can’t afford to get safe food to eat.
Occupational health is connected to racism because it is harder for poc to get the same opportunities as white people to get well paying jobs, This is because of systemic racism. Systemic racism is setup to make poc fail.
Here is a video to help show: Systemic racism.
How Does Occupational Health connect to racism and health justice?
Intellectual
Health
People of color are intellectually affected because of bias and stereotypes they put on them. This causes the student to get in trouble more and have a harder time learning due to their skin color. There's an article that gets more into it.
How are people of color intellectually affected?
How can we help?
First we should educate teachers on how discrimination against people of color work, and how they should avoid it. We should also teach students that its okay to come and talk to teachers if they feel discriminated.
Resources
https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/racism-stress ��https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/what-is-environmental-racism-pollution-covid-systemic/��https://www.educationnext.org/what-racism-in-schools-looks-like-how-to-start-fixing-it/