How can we as a community undo institutional racism in the public health arena to reduce infant mortality?
I’m working on a project for infant survival and community unity. And I’m on a Undoing Institutional Racism Community Action Team. We are trying to look at ways to create awareness and address the issue. From my research, I’ve found that the US ranks 42nd in the world for infant mortality and third world countries beat us in providing care to infants. For African-Americans, the rate doubles where 1 in 5 infants die. And I’ve heard from other community members, that there is a disparity in treatment by physicians, there are stats to show the disparity based on outcomes, and then there are personal stories talking to infant mortality is not a socio-economic as African-Americans at any rung of the socio-economic ladder faces the same institutional racism growing up and their birth outcomes are still dire compared to the general population. And then again, we live in a civil technological society with the ‘best’ doctors and academia, but still rank in the cess pool for infant mortality..
You want to reduce infant mortality, you increase health care and dietary care for mothers before the child is born. Awareness begins with the mothers to be. Racism is not tied to infant mortality. Poverty and poor health care is.
Whatever action team this is, it is already on a loosing side by flagging “racism” in its name. Using the term only creates a bias atmosphere.
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