Community health leaders participated in a panel discussion on, “COVID-19, Vaccinations and (MIS)Information in Communities of Color.”
The Nov. 16 discussion was the tenth in the 关键的对话 series of panel discussions addressing systemic racism sponsored by the 威尼斯人娱乐城 Division of Diversity and Inclusion. 这是2021-22学年的第二学期。
The 关键的对话 series is a part of Roos倡导社区变革, a campus-wide initiative launched in June 2020, which highlights thoughtful action on campus and in our community to ensure lasting and comprehensive changes. 每个关键对话讨论的目标是启发,教育和探索种族主义的原因和潜在的治疗方法。 参加讨论是免费的。
本次会议的小组成员包括:
Jannette berkeley - patton博士,威尼斯人娱乐城医学院生物医学和健康信息系教授,威尼斯人娱乐城健康公平研究所所长
Liset Olarte, M.D., division of infectious disease, Children’s Mercy Kansas City
Qiana Thomason, m.s.w.,健康前进基金会总裁兼首席执行官
弗兰克·汤普森,堪萨斯城卫生局临时主任
对话节选如下。 To view the complete recording of the conversation, 点击这里.
有色人种对医疗行业不信任的历史
奥拉特:对医疗保健系统的不信任源于与歧视性做法有关的历史事件,这些做法影响了有色人种社区,并可能持续到今天。 在医疗保健领域最著名的不道德实验是持续了40年的塔斯基吉梅毒研究。 它在70年代结束了,所以不是很久以前。
这项由美国公共卫生服务机构和塔斯基吉研究所开展的研究针对大约600名患有或未患梅毒的黑人男性。 这项研究调查了参与者感染梅毒的自然过程,但他们并不被告知这项研究的真正目的。 更令人担忧的是,一旦青霉素成为治疗标准,参与者就得不到治疗。 梅毒会导致永久性的神经和心脏损伤,并可能危及生命。 这个实验深刻地影响了黑人社区和医疗体系之间的关系。
改善和跟踪慢性病管理的解决方案
Thomason: It's time for us to begin to look at the disparate outcomes that result in health injustices, and it's time for our states - Missouri and Kansas - and our Federal Government to require the use of race, ethnicity and language data, so that we can ensure that we have the full picture. 我们无法改变我们无法测量的东西。
在人们所在的地方提供医疗保健
Thomason: We’ve seen that the best and most promising practices here locally, as well as nationally, focus on connecting underserved communities with health care services through channels that offer proximity and trust, like our faith-based communities.
威尼斯人娱乐城在促进病毒信息和疫苗接种方面的作用
汤普森:Jeannette Berkeley-Patton领导的威尼斯人娱乐城组织有一个基于信仰的网络,目标人群是(堪萨斯城)在疫苗获取和分发方面最缺乏服务的人群,也是受病例影响最严重的人群。 One of the things I’m the most excited about is that the federal grants that allow us to get out and work with community organizations that not only work with COVID awareness, but also around developing their own organizational capacity.
通过社区联系改善整体健康状况
我们的医疗制度是为治疗病人而设立的。 When you’re really talking about improving health, you need to talk abut relationships, so we need to think about how we restructure our medical systems. COVID是一个很好的试金石。 有了COVID,我们看到卫生服务比以往任何时候都更深入人们居住的社区。
