How to increase health equity among children
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CCTS CATS Affiliate scholar, Monique Jindal, was recently published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Dr. Jindal’s paper highlighted how racial and ethnic health disparities among children in the U.S. are the result of generations of structural racism and require myriad policy solutions to bring about equity.
“Many current policies are undergirded by structural racism — the patterns and practices that reinforce the racial hierarchies that were created many, many years ago — and continue to leave minoritized children at the bottom,” said Jindal, an assistant professor of clinical medicine. “We wanted to understand, given that context, what are the policy levers that we can use to mitigate those health inequities.”
Modified on July 25, 2024