Diaz, Jason, PhD

Rexing, Christen, PhD, MPH

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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons Explorer Café Explorer Connection 6-24-2020 An Epidemic of Racism: Unpacking the Intersection of Inequality and COVID Christen Rexing PhD, MPH Jason Diaz PhD Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/explorercafe An Epidemic of  Racism: Unpacking the Intersection of  Inequality and COVIDpresented byChristen Rexing, PhD, MPH, Urban Public Health & NutritionJason Diaz, PhD, Integrated Science, Business, and TechnologyJune 24, 2020Supported by the De La Salle Institute for Advanced Teaching and LearningHealth is rooted in social, political and economic structures.Structural inequalities are caused by systems that marginalize populations and make them vulnerable to abuse and trauma.What are some ways that existing inequalities have enhanced the pain of living through a pandemic?Age MattersRace MattersPeople of color have a higher incidence of all of theseIncome MattersRN’sHairdressersHealthcareNon-HealthcareFamily/General PractitionerCEO’sFaculty in Higher EdRetail, Receptionists, WaitstaffIncarceration MattersGeorgia Reopens, April 2020DiscussionHow do we reopen in an equitable fashion while considering vulnerable populations?Break Out Discussions• You will be randomly grouped with five other people• You will discuss for about ten minutes• Please discuss the prompt• The prompt and announcements will occur in the chat as well as a banner• Select someone to report out your conversationDiscussionHow do we reopen in an equitable fashion while considering vulnerable populations?There is clear disproportionate impact on populations of color. These communities are more likely to:Work at essential, low wage jobsExperience high unemploymentHave poor access to healthcareExperience risky co-morbiditiesGeorge Floyd, 1973 - 2020Poster carried in the 1963 March on Washington.Alabama, 1965Police disperse a protest with tear gas, 1965.In 1992, Rodney King was arrested for drunk driving and savagely beaten by police.Footage of the brutality was captured by a bystander.The officers involved were initially acquitted, leading to nation-wide protests. Trayvon MartinMichael BrownEric GarnerFreddy Gray Philando Castile2013 - PresentWho is missing?Breonna TaylorRiah MiltonDominique “Rem’mie” Falls#SayHerNameTrans Lives Matter2013 - PresentRacist Housing SegregationRacist Economic PoliciesRacist Healthcare SystemsRacist Police BrutalityCOVID-19Health DisparitiesPhiladelphia, June 2020Philadelphia, June 2020Philadelphia, June 2020“The landmarks of political, economic and social history are the moments when some condition passed from the category of the given into the category of the intolerable…The history of public health might well be written as a record of successive redefinings of the unacceptable.”Geoffrey Vickers, Secretary, Medical Research Council, Great Britain, 1958Redefining the UnacceptableDiscussionIn your group…Brainstorm and record a list of “things” affecting the public’s health that have passed from tolerable (accepted) to intolerable (unaccepted).Include items that you wish would become unacceptableWhat kind of future can you imagine that addresses inequities for our:Aging population?Incarcerated population?Black and Native populations?Essential low-wage workforce?Health is rooted in social, political and economic structures.

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