Health Equity

Medicine’s Privileged Gatekeepers: Producing Harmful Ignorance About Racism And Health

Abstract: Ignorance is neither neutral nor benign, especially when it cloaks evidence of harm. And when ignorance is produced and entrenched by gatekeeper medical institutions, as has been the case with obfuscation of at least 200 years of knowledge about racism and health, the damage is compounded.

Publication: Health Affairs

Date Published: April 20, 2021

Author(s): Nancy Krieger, Rhea W. Boyd, Fernando De Maio and Aletha Maybank

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This analysis of California’s state budget from 2007 to 2018 finds that to ensure the long-term health of the state, California needs to eliminate health care waste and direct the savings toward increased funding for programs that improve community conditions—like public education, public health, housing assistance, food assistance, and income support.