Healing Arc

A new study in JAMA Network Open concluded that providing reparations to Black communities would help close the wealth gap and, in turn, reduce the health and longevity gaps that currently exists https://bit.ly/3HTeVc5

The Lancet sat with Dr. Michelle Morse to discuss her role with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and her work to reduce racial inequities in areas where discriminatory practices adversely affect patient care.

Morse strongly believes approaches to tackle health inequities should “consider the long history of racism in our society, and acknowledge the racialised pattern of health outcomes, and then act in a way that directly addresses those racial patterns and impacts, so that the action we take is specifically for groups who have experienced historical marginalisation and disadvantage.”

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