书目名称 | COVID-19 and Health System Segregation in the US |
副标题 | Racial Health Dispar |
编辑 | Prem Misir |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/221/220506/220506.mp4 |
概述 | Focuses on the segregated U.S. health system and uses epidemiological evidence to assess the link.Includes statistics on health disparities of COVID-19 by race/ethnicity in a single volume.Offers take |
丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Public Health |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | This book highlights and suggests remedies for the racial and ethnic health disparities confronting people of color amid COVID-19 in the United States. Racial and ethnic health disparities stem from social conditions, not from racial features, that are deeply grounded in systemic racism, operating through the White racial frame. Race and ethnicity are significant factors in any review of health inequity and health inequality. Hence, any realistic end to racial health disparities lies beyond the scope of the health system and health care. The book explores structuration theory, which examines the duality between agency and structure as a possibly potent pathway toward dismantling systemic racism, the White racial frame, and racialized social systems..In particular, the author examines COVID-19 with a focus on the segregated health system of the US. The US health system operates on the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’, whereby the dominant group has access to quality health care and people of color have access to a lesser quality or zero health care. ‘Separation’ implies and enforces inferiority in health care. Through the evidence presented, the author demonstrates that racial and e |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | COVID-19 pandemic; segregated health care; systemic racism; racial and ethnic health disparities; medica |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88766-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-88765-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-88766-7Series ISSN 2192-3698 Series E-ISSN 2192-3701 |
issn_series | 2192-3698 |
copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 |