BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — By the 2010s, the rate had declined to 1,073 per 100,000 for Black infants and 499 per 100,000 for white infants, yet the disparity grew to a mortality ratio of 2.15.
There are so many factors to consider, but the main things one should research in terms of disparate health outcomes are: Income, access to healthy food, access to a healthy environment (again see income and housing disparities,) and access to medical care (see income again as well as bias in healthcare that affects outcomes.)
Black people are more likely to be impoverished. This means they have fewer choices and access issues when it comes to housing. They are more likely to live in areas that are affected by different types of pollution; which have long term health impacts. They have a harder time accessing healthy food because there are less likely to be decent grocery stores in their communities. If you read the article, you know that black babies are more likely to die of perinatal conditions, which are health conditions before, or right after birth, (see my point about access to healthcare and disparity of health outcomes based on race.)
While racism that causes these disparities isn’t overt, it’s baked in beneath all of these complex factors. Racism is absolutely a factor, it’s systemic racism.
There are so many factors to consider, but the main things one should research in terms of disparate health outcomes are: Income, access to healthy food, access to a healthy environment (again see income and housing disparities,) and access to medical care (see income again as well as bias in healthcare that affects outcomes.)
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-273.pdf
https://www.nrdc.org/bio/nina-sevilla/food-apartheid-racialized-access-healthy-affordable-food
https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2014/spring/racial-food-deserts/
https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/racial-disparities-in-maternal-and-infant-health-current-status-and-efforts-to-address-them/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4638275/
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/07/more-black-americans-die-from-effects-of-air-pollution.html
https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/who-is-at-risk/disparities
Black people are more likely to be impoverished. This means they have fewer choices and access issues when it comes to housing. They are more likely to live in areas that are affected by different types of pollution; which have long term health impacts. They have a harder time accessing healthy food because there are less likely to be decent grocery stores in their communities. If you read the article, you know that black babies are more likely to die of perinatal conditions, which are health conditions before, or right after birth, (see my point about access to healthcare and disparity of health outcomes based on race.)
While racism that causes these disparities isn’t overt, it’s baked in beneath all of these complex factors. Racism is absolutely a factor, it’s systemic racism.
And the black on black homocides, just going to ignore that? Or is that racism too?