Reading List: Impact of Racism on Health

The following additional resources and readings will help providers to grow knowledge around the impact of racism and trauma on emotional and mental health. 
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Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue (November 2018), American Public Health Association
https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2019/01/29/law-enforcement-violence 
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The Effects of Forced Family Separation, Human Impact Partners (October 2018)
https://humanimpact.org/hipprojects/the-effects-of-forced-family-separation-in-the-rio-grande-valley-a-family-unity-family-health-research-update/?strategy=all 

‍Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience: A Framework for Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma, Prevention Institute (February 2016)
https://www.preventioninstitute.org/publications/adverse-community-experiences-and-resilience-framework-addressing-and-preventing 

Double Jeopardy: COVID-19 and Behavioral Health Disparities for Black and Latino Communities in the U.S., (2020)
‍https://www.samhsa.gov/behavioral-health-equity/black-african-american 

The Trauma of Racism (2015), McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research
http://www.issuelab.org/resources  search D Lebron

Racial Bias and its Effect on Healthcare, Harvard School of Public Health
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/racial-bias-and-its-effect-on-health-care/ 

Health Equity and Social Justice 101 Online Training Series, NACCHO
https://www.naccho.org/programs/public-health-infrastructure/health-equity

Race, medicine, and health care in the United States: a historical survey (2001). Journal of the National Medical Association
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2593958/ 

The Burdens of Race and History on Black People’s Health 400 Years After Jamestown (Oct. 2019), American Journal of Public Health
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305290 

How we fail black patients in pain (Jan 2020), Association of American Medical Colleges
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-we-fail-black-patients-pain

Psychiatry confronts its racist past (2021). Judith Warner, NYTimes.
‍https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/health/psychiatry-racism-black-americans.html