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Health Communication Disparity and Inequality

Defining Concepts

  • Equity vs. Equality: What’s the Difference? An explanation of inequality, equality, equity, and justice using an apple tree illustration. Mentions systemic inequality. By The George Washington University Milken School Institute of Public Health (November 2020)

Race and Women

  • #ShareTheMedicalMic amplifies voices of Black female doctors to address disparities. Board-certified OB-GYNs Dr. Jessica Shepherd and Dr. Jennifer Lincoln join the 3rd hour of TODAY to talk about the #ShareTheMedicalMic campaign on Instagram. They discuss the campaign’s goal to amplify voices of Black female doctors to address racial biases in health care. July 22, 2020.
    • States the disproportionately high mortality rate of infants in Black populations.
    • Limited options offered to Black women compared to others.
    • Attempt to use communication - voicing concerns ""Share the Medical Mic", shared representation - to decrease disparities in health care.
  • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Book by Harriett Washington (2006).
  • Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom (2019)

Women

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