In this videotape, Dr. Camara Jones provides key definitions of racism, and explores how this system affects the institutions of America, in particular the healthcare system. Dr. Jones asserts that racism needs to be named and addressed in order for health disparities to be eliminated. She also examines the racial climate that exists within the United States, and emphasizes that racism undermines the potential of American society as a whole.
This program provides a framework for understanding how racial and ethnic health disparities arise on three levels. It also focuses on health policy, influences, interpretations, and implications, and addresses the need to confront institutional racism as a health policy. It examines the importance of the environment, agenda setting, data collection as a means to guide policy, and coordinating action through policy.
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This program is from the 5th Annual William T. Small Keynote Lecture from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, Minority Health Project. It was originally broadcast on February 28, 2003.
The conference, initiated by the UNC Minority Student Caucus in 1977, is the nation's oldest and largest student-run conference. The program was developed to highlight health issues of concern to people of color and to attract students interested in minority concerns to public health.
