Pritchett Ellen N, Vasquez Rebecca
Department of Dermatology, Howard University College of Medicine, 2041 Georgia Avenue NW, Towers Building, Suite 4300, Washington, DC 20060, USA.
Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Dermatol Clin. 2023 Apr;41(2):335-343. doi: 10.1016/j.det.2022.08.004. Epub 2023 Feb 1.
Racial and ethnic disparities exist across a wide range of disease areas and clinical services. Becoming familiar with the history of race in America, and how it has been used to structure laws or policies that drive inequities in the social determinants of health, even today, is necessary to mitigate these disparities across medicine.
种族和族裔差异存在于广泛的疾病领域和临床服务中。了解美国的种族历史,以及种族如何被用于构建法律或政策,这些法律或政策即使在今天仍导致健康社会决定因素方面的不平等,对于减少医学领域的这些差异是必要的。