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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

That represents a loss of more than 80 million years of life, according to a 2023 JAMA study. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems. The design of the U.S. “It has become institutionalized. I call it institutional racism.”

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Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress.

HEALTHBEAT

That represents a loss of more than 80 million years of life, according to a 2023 JAMA study. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems. The design of the U.S. It has become institutionalized. I call it institutional racism.”