250660 Structural Racism and the Architecture of Health

Monday, October 31, 2011: 3:15 PM

Makani Themba-Nixon , The Praxis Project, Washington, DC
Discrimination in health is only a symptom of a much larger web of systems that intersect to create patterns and policies of bias – and privilege. This presentation will explore frameworks for analyzing and surfacing these historic patterns in health systems, including health education, research, service delivery and financing, and explore how structural racism has been a primary force in creating and maintaining the health systems we have today.

Learning Areas:
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
1. Analyze the impact of structural racism on health from a “systems” framework 2. Describe the intersecting impacts of privilege and racism on health 3. Identify promising trends in addressing discrimination in health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have published on this subject and have directed a national project addressing these issues over the last eight years.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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