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Dr. Howard Pinderhughes from UCSF came to speak to us about racial discrimination and structural violence and how those effect health outcomes. We watched a clip of the Netflix documentary, "13" which spoke to the 13th amendment's loophole so prisoners could no longer have rights under the constitution. We discussed at great length how this became the basis for mass incarceration because there was an incentive for prisons to use incarcerated folks as labor.
Dr. Pinderhughes guided us through the changes he and his family noticed during their time residing in Roxbury, Massachusetts. From the "tipping point" of a community rapidly transitioning from a White to a Black neighborhood, to slumlords renting out units, decreasing property rates, and contributing to overcrowding along with changes in infrastructure by building a highway surrounding the city and the only construction occurring between 1968-1990 being a Juvenile jail, all of these contributed to the health of the community. However, now the narrative has become displacement into suburban and ex-urban communities. Since we are in the Health Equity Action Lab seminar, we also wanted to take some time to focus on the action piece of the seminar. Dr. Pinderhughes spoke about some of the solutions he has been a part of proposing to local communities. Health of communities are determined by three things: equitable opportunity (economic/educational), people (social/cultural environment), and place or the built environment. By addressing solutions specific to each of these three determinants, health equity becomes more feasible.
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