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6: Structural Racism and Systemic Inequities
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6.0: Introduction
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6.1: Understanding Different Forms of Racism
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6.2: The Historical Context of Structural Racism in the United States
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6.3: Contemporary Structural Racism and Systemic Inequities in the United States
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This page delves into the extensive relationship between structural racism and systemic inequities, highlighting how deeply rooted racial biases manifest contemporarily in various systems including housing, political empowerment, finance, health care, and criminal justice. It illustrates how these interconnected injustices perpetuate disparities in wealth, health, and opportunities, often stemming from historical policies like redlining.
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6.4: Structural Racism and Systemic Inequities in U.S. Health Care
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6.5: Chapter Summary
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6.6: Key Terms
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The text provides definitions and explanations of various terms related to racism, social justice, and inequality.
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6.7: Review Questions
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This page presents a set of questions exploring issues related to structural and personally mediated racism, microaggressions, racial profiling, health care disparities, and other social determinants of health affecting BIPOC communities. It discusses topics such as implicit bias, redlining, food deserts, and the maternal mortality crisis, identifying systemic inequities and their impacts on access to healthcare, treatment disparities, and health outcomes.