Rethinking the Use of Race in Medicine
The COVID-19 pandemic
has shined a spotlight on racial disparities in health and health care,
but disparities are hardly new. They have been driven by longstanding
inequities within and beyond the health care system that are rooted in
racism.
KFF Vice President Samantha Artiga, who directs the Racial Equity and
Health Policy Program, in this new video
discusses how the medical system continues to use race in ways that may
perpetuate disparities, including through provider and
institutional bias, clinical guidelines, and medical education and
training approaches. She also discusses the growing efforts within the
medical community to reevaluate and revise how race is used in health
care to move toward race-conscious versus race-based medicine.
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