Why Are Some U.S. Cities Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis?

In addition to being a serious social issue, racism is also a serious challenge to public health. In fact, over the last year and a half, dozens of cities have declared racism a public health crisis - and today, we here at SciShow will talk through what that means and the science that supports it. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/historical-foundations-race https://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6273/564.full https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200630.939347/full/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2021693 https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1740-9713.01412 https://hbr.org/2020/06/confronting-racism-at-work-a-reading-list https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938117/ https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/stress/effects-cardiovascular https://physanth.org/about/position-statements/aapa-statement-race-and-racism-2019/ https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/historical-foundations-race https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joim.13153 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK425845/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315961355_Structural_racism_and_health_inequities_in_the_USA_evidence_and_interventions https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112305#_i4 https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/social-determinants-health/interventions-resources/discrimination https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6773.13222 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.119.14492 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756074/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1007/s12114-010-9058-y https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31139-9/fulltext https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21331054/ https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/science/jackson-heart-study-jhs#how-it's-conducted https://aha-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/hypertensionaha.119.14492/8ea262b2-3db8-4c15-8c00-a334a7f052fe/hype201914492.pdf https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/du-lda071720.php https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.93.2.243 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16259480/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158444/ https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/-/media/ProgramsandProjects/Publications/Attachments/ResearchSummary_Discrimination.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6589103/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30221968/ https://groups.anthropology.northwestern.edu/lhbr/kuzawa_web_files/pdfs/Kuzawa%20and%20Sweet%20AJHB%20early%20view.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6779418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388771/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23873713/ https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1559140/1/Peters_Uncertainty_stress_causes_diseases.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/allostatic-load https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00127/full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019687/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953619305581 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827318302933?via%3Dihub https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026365/ https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2009.171140 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2023616 https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/06/15/racism-is-a-public-health-crisis-say-cities-and-counties Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minneapolis_05-28-20_(49947863357).jpg


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