Structural Racism: The Root Cause of the Social Determinants of Health - Bill of Health
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Government and public health officials must aggressively work to end structural racism and revise laws that create racial inequalities.
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Structural Racism, Social Determinants of Health, and Provider Bias: Impact on Brain Development in Critical Congenital Heart Disease - ScienceDirect
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PDF] Social Determinants of Health and Structural Inequities-Root Causes of Diabetes Disparities.
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Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care: Scorecard
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Social Determinents of Health
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Root Causes of Hunger - Food Research & Action Center
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Frontiers Investigating a key structural determinant of health, racism, and related social determinants of health in Massachusetts during the COVID-19 pandemic
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How racism is a structural and social determinant of health
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Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans
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An HIT-Supported Care Coordination Framework for Reducing Structural Racism and Discrimination for Patients With ADRD - ScienceDirect
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How Structural Inequalities in New York's Health Care System Exacerbate Health Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Equitable Reform
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Can federal policy help overcome systemically reinforced racial inequities in social determinants of health? An observational study of Georgia and neighboring U.S. states, BMC Public Health
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Root Causes: Going Past Social Determinants - Health Resources in Action
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Health Equity