Structural Racism — A 60-Year-Old Black Woman with Breast Cancer
A woman on Chicago’s primarily black South Side is seen for a breast lump at a community hospital that lacks the resources for high-quality cancer care. A navigator from the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force reroutes her to a qualified medical center.
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NATURE: Inequality: Live poor, die young
Nature.com
Abigail A. Sewell examines a physician's study of how deprivation shortens lifespan.
David Ansell's passionately written The Death Gap presents a powerful case for social inequality as a cause of disease and disparities in health. The social epidemiologist, physician and public-hospital veteran invokes the concept of 'death gaps' to describe differences in life expectancy by race, ethnicity, class and geography.
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Excerpt from “The Death Gap”
I Sat up, strangely perplexed. For a moment, perhaps, I could not clearly understand how I came there. My terror had fallen from me like a garment. My hat had gone, and my collar had burst away from its fastener. A few minutes before, there had only been three real things before me-the immensity of the night and space and nature, my own feebleness and anguish, and the near approach of death.
Health Equity as a System Strategy: The Rush University Medical Center Framework
https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.20.0674
We can only build COVID immunity by building trust
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/we-can-only-build-covid-immunity-building-trust
Inequality in the doctor’s office: How local physicians are working to expand diversity, care
https://wgntv.com/news/medical-watch/inequality-in-the-doctors-office-how-local-physicians-are-working-to-expand-diversity-care/
Average US Life Expectancy Drops One Year, New Report Shows
https://news.wttw.com/2021/02/23/average-us-life-expectancy-drops-one-year-new-report-shows
Limited pharmacy access for some Illinois Medicaid patients in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/health/limited-pharmacy-access-for-some-illinois-medicaid-patients-in-chicago/10315664/
An Urban Hospital on the Brink Vs. the Officials Sworn to Save It.
https://chicagodefender.com/an-urban-hospital-on-the-brink-vs-the-officials-sworn-to-save-it/
What’s at stake if Mercy Hospital, Chicago’s oldest, closes
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/stake-chicagos-oldest-hospital-closes/story?id=74757394
Pandemic in Chicago: Why are more Black people dying of COVID-19?
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/11/21/the-pandemic-in-chicago
Experts: Tackling Poverty and Racism as Public Health Crises Requires Rapid Action
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-10-01/experts-tackling-poverty-and-racism-as-public-health-crises-requires-rapid-action
One Chicago community endures virus, violence and turmoil
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-race-and-ethnicity-business-shootings-chicago-8ad8e3f025a039c0f3d7efc78edccac9