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We know time is limited these days, so we put together a list of 10 things you’ll learn from this month’s issue on #RacismAndHealth. To read the full issue, visit: bit.ly/3L77L37

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1️⃣ Black patients have over 2.5 times the odds of having one or more negative descriptors in their electronic health records than White patients. #RacismAndHealth bit.ly/3rrdybG
2️⃣ Structural racism against American Indians and Alaska Natives, including relocation to reservations, genocide, and inequities in health care access, negatively impacts intergenerational health outcomes. #RacismAndHealth bit.ly/3rrdybG
3️⃣ Within the health care sector, Black women are disproportionately concentrated in low-wage, high-risk positions. Black women comprise 24.9 percent of licensed practical nurses and 23.0 percent of the long-term care workforce. #RacismAndHealth bit.ly/3rrdybG
4️⃣ Poor-quality data infrastructure and biases in the public health community act independently and reinforce one other to harm Asian American health outcomes. #RacismAndHealth bit.ly/3rrdybG
5️⃣ Rural zip codes with the largest shares of Black and American Indian/Alaska Native residents have greater median distances from certain health services than nonminoritized rural zip codes. #RacismAndHealth bit.ly/3rrdybG
6️⃣ Health disparities experienced by Filipino Americans are caused by historically exploitative labor experiences, intergenerational trauma, and the model minority myth, among other factors. #RacismAndHealth bit.ly/3rrdybG
7️⃣ Black and Hispanic home health patients have, on average, lower use high-quality home health agencies, even after accounting for neighborhood fixed effects. #RacismAndHealth bit.ly/3rrdybG
8️⃣ High rates of community police encounters are associated with significantly higher rates of smoking, poor physical health, low physical activity, violent crime, and domestic violence. #RacismAndHealth bit.ly/3rrdybG
9️⃣ Minority Medicaid managed care enrollees report significantly worse care experiences than White enrollees. #RacismAndHealth bit.ly/3rrdybG
🔟 Residing in states with higher levels of racialized electoral disenfranchisement is associated with more depressive symptoms, functional limitations, and difficulty performing daily living tasks among Black people. #RacismAndHealth bit.ly/3rrdybG

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