1/ #ASPC2021 talk for Honorary Fellowship Award by @NMHheartdoc on New Kind of Prevention – Reducing CV Health Disparities at Community and Individual Level
🧵from session
@ASPCardio @CardioNerds
2/ #ASPC2021
Covid-19 deaths by race and ethnicity in the US:
1 in 555 Black Americans has died
Populations w/ highest disease burden➡️ lowest vaccination rates
3/ Any discussion of prevention shouldn’t start at hypertension, dyslipidemia, but at the root cause of those inequities.
Need to address policy. All policy is health policy.
Stolen breaths nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
#ASPC2021
4/ Physicians must engage with social movements if we want to improve health and address social/structural determinants
⭐️New Prevention⭐️
-Focusing on policy, racism, & changing workforce
#ASPC2021
5/ Racism – belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to race, especially to distinguish it as inferior or superior to other races
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
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6/ How should we use race in medicine? #ASPC2021
Race is not proxy for biology. Report actual social determinants of health.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
Thinking fast (with stereotypes) and slow (with cognition) ➡️ inform biases
Need to be aware of our implicit bias.
7/ How do we risk-assess communities? #ASPC2021
Social vulnerability index (SVI) from census
➡️for Chicago SVI map overlays map of areas disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
Also overlays redlining maps.
Policies limit access & there are people that make those policies.
8/ #ASPC2021
⭐️Overcome our bias, check assumptions
⭐️Build antiracist culture
⭐️D&I is about excellence, not representativeness
⭐️Target the pipeline
Poor policy harms community
But people design policy
And people can change policy
bit.ly/3kNGKa9
9/ Pipeline problem began w/ Flexner Report in 1910
Majority of historically black medical schools closed
Underrepresentation persists
Higher URM faculty➡️association with matriculation of URIM students
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
#ASPC2021
10/ More discussion with Dr. Yancy on @cardionerds here:
cardionerds.com/135-narratives…
#ASPC2021
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