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Analysis: Top medical journals have rarely published articles on racism and health
Over the past 30 years, the world’s top medical journals have rarely published scientific articles about the impact of racism on health, according to a new analysis co-authored by Nancy Krieger of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Of more than 200,000 articles published over the last 30 years in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the British Medical Journal, less than 1% included the word “racism” anywhere in the text, according to an April 20, 2021, Health Affairs blog by Krieger, professor of social epidemiology, and her co-authors. Furthermore, most of the articles that included the word “racism” were opinion pieces, not scientific studies. And of the few scientific studies that did include the word “racism,” it most often appeared only in the discussion section of the article and was not a focal point of the
Why much more coronavirus relief is needed
Government aid on a large scale is needed to help Americans facing deep financial hardship because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to experts from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
In a February 18, 2021 article in The Conversation, three experts from the Department of Health Policy and Management Mary Findling, research associate, John Benson, senior research scientist, and Robert Blendon, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, emeritus wrote that public opinion surveys they conducted last summer show that, despite trillions of dollars in government assistance, “the aid didn’t put much of a dent into the financial problems faced by families earning less than $100,000.” They added, “Many people were struggling and still are just to pay for basic necessities, like food and rent.”
The Social Order
From the time of the Roman Empire until well after the discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium in 1882, many of the best medical minds believed that miasmas invisible vapors emitted from the earth caused killer infections such as typhus, diphtheria, and malaria. Though the bacteriological revolution of the late nineteenth century routed that theory, a new miasma theory has lately sprung up in schools of public health, holding that racism and sexism, though as unmeasurable as the ancient miasmas, cause AIDS, cancer, drug addiction, and heart disease. Indeed, according to public health professors, living in America is acutely hazardous to women and minorities, so shot through is the United States with sickness-producing even fatal injustice and bigotry.