Minorities in the US and the UK disproportionately hit by Covid-19 points towards a structural rot that needs attention Opinion | AyeshaJacub
to seek treatment for symptoms of the coronavirus infection because of the threat of out of pocket payments. These payments impact already-strained household budgets with resultant secondary adverse health impacts from decreased household financial reserves. How we chose to explain these factors which place ethnic minorities at greater risk matters, because it has a bearing on outcomes.
Tying factors like education, occupation and housing to individual effort and choice erroneously misses the root cause of these issues. of structural, cultural and individual-level racism.experience of racism is well known to have direct effects on health, with emotional distress leading to physiological consequences including hypertension. Vitamin D
By holding individual choice and cultural factors responsible for health differentials, broader entrenched prejudices and discrimination are obfuscated. which have entrenched segregation or redlining and mortgage discrimination can be overlooked becuse inequalities in death and illness from the coronavirus are then tied to and bound within the bodies of ethnic minorities.
Are African Americans and BAME groupings destined to be low wage, ‘front-line’, high exposure jobs because of biological ‘predisposition’ or would the legacy of racial segregation, redlining and chronic underinvestment in health, environmental and educational services be a more plausible rationale for higher coronavirus related mortality rates within certain communities?
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