How you can prevent, mitigate impact of racism on child health

Posted by Daniel Bach on August 5, 2019 at 5:21pm in Education, Emergency Services, and Health IT

The American Academy of Pediatrics has released a new policy statement that addresses the impact of bias and racism on child and adolescent health. Though it is our first formal policy statement devoted to racism, it builds on our previous statements regarding other social determinants of health such as poverty, food insecurity, housing insecurity, child health equity, immigration status and early childhood adversity.

https://www.aappublications.org/news/2019/07/29/letter072919

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