About

This is a learning page that is mostly about medical racism and differences in health for racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The site looks at how not everyone has equal access to health insurance, preventive care, and good medical treatment, and how this continues to affect racialized groups, using data from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). People don't make choices that lead to these health differences. Instead, they are caused by historical and structural inequality in systems like redlining, segregation, and racism in hospitals and clinics. The site also looks at the history of racism in medicine by using Harriet A. Washington's Medical Apartheid, which records unethical medical experiments on enslaved Black Americans and government-led abuses like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. This learning site tries to raise awareness and stress the importance of health equity by linking past injustices to present-day health outcomes, like higher death rates for mothers and babies, lower life expectancy, and fewer options for care. It also calls for systemic change to make the healthcare system more just and fair.