How Racism Threatens the Health of Millions of People

Racism causes avoidable disease and premature death, says medical journal The Lancet, due to factors including unconscious bias in the healthcare system. The risks of living in more polluted environments And the daily stresses of battling systemic racism. The roots of this discrimination lie partly in early medical history when many doctors held discredited ideas about racial difference. But even today’s smart health tech can reflect systemic bias...