Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association, Washington, DC, USA.
Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
Yale J Biol Med. 2021 Mar 31;94(1):153-157. eCollection 2021 Mar.
This perspective describes three new policies passed at the November 2020 Special Meeting of the American Medical Association House of Delegates. These policies (1) denounce racism as a public health threat; (2) call for the elimination of race as a proxy for ancestry, genetics, and biology in medical education, research, and clinical practice; and (3) decry racial essentialism in medicine. We also explore the social and institutional context leading to the passage of these policies, which speak directly to the harmful legacy of racism in America, and its insidious impact on the healthcare system.
这篇观点文章描述了美国医学协会代表大会于 2020 年 11 月特别会议上通过的三项新政策。这些政策（1）谴责种族主义是公共卫生威胁；（2）呼吁在医学教育、研究和临床实践中消除种族作为祖先、遗传学和生物学的替代指标；（3）谴责医学中的种族本质主义。我们还探讨了导致这些政策通过的社会和制度背景，这些政策直接涉及美国种族主义的有害遗产及其对医疗保健系统的潜在影响。
