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Implicit Racial Bias Impacts Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment, Study Finds
Researchers find that psychiatric diagnosis and treatment planning are susceptible to unconscious racial bias.
www.madinamerica.com/2021/02/implicit-racial-bias-impacts-psychiatric-diagnosis-treatment-study-finds/
A new study in Academic Psychiatry investigates the relationship between racial bias among psychiatrists and medical students in the US and the effects on diagnosis and treatment. The study, conducted by Amalia Londono Tobon from the Yale University School of Medicine and her colleagues, found rampant implicit racial bias among participants, which can have severe implications for their patients of color.
Tobon and colleagues measured the presence and strength of implicit associations and the relevance to how participants diagnose and treat patients and understand patient compliance. Implicit associations are unconscious, automatic, and non-deliberate judgments and thinking patterns that people might have about others. These could influence the quality of care they provide to people in those groups. The researchers write:
“A large proportion of participants had moderate associations of Black faces with psychosis, non-compliance, and antipsychotic words (and White faces with mood disorders, compliance, and antidepressants).”
Historical Redlining Practices Shape Racial Health Inequalities Today, Study Finds
Researchers examined how historical redlining practices in nine US cities impact urban health outcomes today.
www.madinamerica.com/2021/02/historic-redlining-practices-shape-racial-health-inequalities-today-study-finds/
A recent study, published in the journal Environmental Justice, looked at the associations between historical redlining practices and present-day health inequities. The research team, led by Jason Corburn at UC Berkeley, found that residents in neighborhoods that were historically denied financial investment due to redlining policies were more likely to have high cancer and asthma rates in the present. Residents in these neighborhoods, examined across nine US cities, were also more likely to lack health insurance and endorse poor mental health.
The authors sought to contribute to the research that examines critical environmental justice issues affecting communities of color rooted in discriminatory policies. The researchers, Nardone, Chiang, and Corburn, write:
“Racial residential segregation remains a fundamental cause of health inequities, and redlining should be understood as a practice that left a physical and social imprint on urban health for generations. This study has attempted to explore one method for estimating the population health impacts today from historic redlining.”
Environmental JusticeVol. 13, No. 4Original Articles
Historic Redlining and Urban Health Today in U.S. Cities
Anthony Nardone, Joey Chiang, and Jason Corburn
Published Online:12 Aug 2020https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2020.0011
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/env.2020.0011
Abstract
This study explores the potential associations between historic redlining and urban health outcomes in nine U.S. cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Oakland, San Francisco, and St. Louis. We hypothesize that historic redlining has influenced current racial and ethnic health inequities that are spatially patterned by neighborhoods. Using shape files for redlining in nine cities, U.S. Census data and the Centers for Disease Control, 500 Cities Project health data, we tested for the strength of the association between historically redlined neighborhoods and 14 health outcomes today. We found associations between historically redlined neighborhoods and current day prevalence of cancer, asthma, poor mental health, and people lacking health insurance. We also found that residents in historically redlined areas of Atlanta, Cleveland, Miami, and the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan areas were nearly twice as likely to have poor health than in nonredlined areas. Spatial racial segregation and poor health remain critical environmental justice issues impacting communities of color. Our study aims to highlight one historically rooted process that may be contributing to racialized health inequalities today. Our preliminary analysis across multiple cities and multiple health outcomes suggests that the legacy of redlining may be contributing to chronic health inequities within urban areas. Although further research is needed, policy responses must consider how to reverse and repair the legacy of structural racism such as redlining.
Researchers find that psychiatric diagnosis and treatment planning are susceptible to unconscious racial bias.
www.madinamerica.com/2021/02/implicit-racial-bias-impacts-psychiatric-diagnosis-treatment-study-finds/
A new study in Academic Psychiatry investigates the relationship between racial bias among psychiatrists and medical students in the US and the effects on diagnosis and treatment. The study, conducted by Amalia Londono Tobon from the Yale University School of Medicine and her colleagues, found rampant implicit racial bias among participants, which can have severe implications for their patients of color.
Tobon and colleagues measured the presence and strength of implicit associations and the relevance to how participants diagnose and treat patients and understand patient compliance. Implicit associations are unconscious, automatic, and non-deliberate judgments and thinking patterns that people might have about others. These could influence the quality of care they provide to people in those groups. The researchers write:
“A large proportion of participants had moderate associations of Black faces with psychosis, non-compliance, and antipsychotic words (and White faces with mood disorders, compliance, and antidepressants).”
Historical Redlining Practices Shape Racial Health Inequalities Today, Study Finds
Researchers examined how historical redlining practices in nine US cities impact urban health outcomes today.
www.madinamerica.com/2021/02/historic-redlining-practices-shape-racial-health-inequalities-today-study-finds/
A recent study, published in the journal Environmental Justice, looked at the associations between historical redlining practices and present-day health inequities. The research team, led by Jason Corburn at UC Berkeley, found that residents in neighborhoods that were historically denied financial investment due to redlining policies were more likely to have high cancer and asthma rates in the present. Residents in these neighborhoods, examined across nine US cities, were also more likely to lack health insurance and endorse poor mental health.
The authors sought to contribute to the research that examines critical environmental justice issues affecting communities of color rooted in discriminatory policies. The researchers, Nardone, Chiang, and Corburn, write:
“Racial residential segregation remains a fundamental cause of health inequities, and redlining should be understood as a practice that left a physical and social imprint on urban health for generations. This study has attempted to explore one method for estimating the population health impacts today from historic redlining.”
Environmental JusticeVol. 13, No. 4Original Articles
Historic Redlining and Urban Health Today in U.S. Cities
Anthony Nardone, Joey Chiang, and Jason Corburn
Published Online:12 Aug 2020https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2020.0011
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/env.2020.0011
Abstract
This study explores the potential associations between historic redlining and urban health outcomes in nine U.S. cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Oakland, San Francisco, and St. Louis. We hypothesize that historic redlining has influenced current racial and ethnic health inequities that are spatially patterned by neighborhoods. Using shape files for redlining in nine cities, U.S. Census data and the Centers for Disease Control, 500 Cities Project health data, we tested for the strength of the association between historically redlined neighborhoods and 14 health outcomes today. We found associations between historically redlined neighborhoods and current day prevalence of cancer, asthma, poor mental health, and people lacking health insurance. We also found that residents in historically redlined areas of Atlanta, Cleveland, Miami, and the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan areas were nearly twice as likely to have poor health than in nonredlined areas. Spatial racial segregation and poor health remain critical environmental justice issues impacting communities of color. Our study aims to highlight one historically rooted process that may be contributing to racialized health inequalities today. Our preliminary analysis across multiple cities and multiple health outcomes suggests that the legacy of redlining may be contributing to chronic health inequities within urban areas. Although further research is needed, policy responses must consider how to reverse and repair the legacy of structural racism such as redlining.