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Spanish Film & Lit Research Project (Robinson Dwyer): Healthcare Discrimination

A collection of links & information for David Robinson Dwyer's Spanish class.

Online Articles

"Medical Myths about Gender Roles Go Back to Ancient Greece" (Time magazine OpEd)

 https://time.com/6074224/gender-medicine-history/

"It's Just Your Imagination: the Dangerous Gender Bias in Women's Healthcare" (Forbes, 2021)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/womensmedia/2021/09/21/just-your-imagination-the-dangerous-gender-bias-in-womens-healthcare/?sh=66c149eb3e54

"How Discrimination Against Female Doctors Hurts Patients (Harvard Business Review, 2018)

https://hbr.org/2018/08/how-discrimination-against-female-doctors-hurts-patients

"Black Maternal Mortality: It Is Racism, Not Race" (Harvard School of Public Health, 2021)

http://ccp.jhu.edu/2021/05/17/maternal-mortality-black-mamas-race-momnibus/

"Younger Women Oftentimes Misinterpret Deadly Heart Attack Symptoms" (Yale School of Medicine, 2018)

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/younger-women-oftentimes-misinterpret-deadly-heart-attack-symptoms/

"How Discrimination Can Harm Black Women's Health"  (Harvard School of Public Health, 2018)

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/discrimination-black-womens-health/

"Call to Action: Structural Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities" (American Heart Association, 2020)

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000936

Black Women are Dying in Disproportionate Numbers During and After Giving Birth (Bioethics Today, 2018)

https://bioethicstoday.org/blog/black-women-are-dying-in-disproportionate-numbers-during-and-after-giving-birth-and-not-even-celebrity-serena-williams-is-safe/

Reports

"Disparities in Health and Healthcare: 5 Key Questions and Answers" (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2021)

https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/disparities-in-health-and-health-care-5-key-question-and-answers/

"Racism and Health" (CDC)

https://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/racism-disparities/index.html

Journal Articles

Google Scholar Search Results 

Search keywords <healthcare discrimination racial> 

Search keywords <healthcare discrimination gender

Search keywords <healthcare discrimination black men>

 

"Structural Racism in Modern and Historical Healthcare Policy" (Health Affairs, 2022)

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01466

"Undertanding and Addressing Racial Disparities in Healthcare" (Healthcare Financial Review, 2000)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4194634/

"Barriers to Healhcare for Transgender Individuals" (2016)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802845/

"100% of Female Resident Physicians Report Gender Biased Discrimination By Patients" (American Journal of Surgery, 2021)

http://advances.massgeneral.org/digestive-health/journal.aspx?id=2046

Book

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation (2022)  chapter 1 available in Google Books preview

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Under_the_Skin/CjpHEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

Interview with Under the Skin author Linda Villarosa (2022)

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/1106256068/how-covid-exposed-racial-disparities-in-all-aspects-of-the-healthcare-system