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How to Advocate for Racial Health Equity
A Note To Readers: When discussions turn to racial health equity too many healthcare-related professionals - practitioners, researchers,...
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The Path to Health Equity in North Carolina
Remarks by Harold M. Barnette Delivered to the North Carolina Serious Illness Coalition October 21, 2022 I’m Harold Barnette, co-founder...
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The Racial Making of Health Disparities
Framing an Approach to Identifying Clinical, Diagnostic, and Legacy Sources of Disparate Racial Outcomes and Persistent Health Inequity...
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HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES: DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH
Following are remarks I delivered at the North Carolina Nurses Association Annual Conference on September 23, 2021: Thanks to Laura for...
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The Pimp Factor In Health Disparities
Back in December of 2020, an old athletic injury flared up. Through my primary care physician, I scheduled a session with an orthopedist....
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The Tragedy of “Chop Shop” Medicine for Black Diabetics
“Despite the great scientific strides in diabetes care, the rate of amputations across the country grew by 50% between 2009 and 2015....
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Targeting Health Reparations
Credit: News & Observer file photo. The author frequently passed this billboard outside Raleigh, NC circa 1970. As public fallout from...
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Web-Enabled Lives Are Not More Valuable Lives
Nationally, according to Pew Research, 30% of Americans over the age of 60 rarely or never use the internet. That number likely skews...
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In Memoriam
We were born in a small, segregated county hospital just a few months apart in the middle of the last century, two embryonic black boys...
A Different Kind of Public Health Crisis
One of the fundamental distinctions between public health and biomedicine is that the former is concerned primarily with the health of...
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A Crisis Looms Beyond the Coronavirus Pandemic
The nearly 60,000 nursing home deaths attributed (so far) to Covid-19 is opening our eyes to a monumental aging problem that will last...
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A Model For Community-Based Black Elder Care?
The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, but here and there emerge glimmers of hope that the future of our shoddy and mostly hidden elder...
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Health Disparities And Medical Training
One cause of the stunning health disparities revealed by patterns of Covid-19 infection and mortality may be the very way that medical...
Respect for Persons and the “Hidden Curriculum” in Healthcare
Some years ago, I went with my now-late mother to a consultation to discuss the results of an MRI scan of her shoulder, in which she had...
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Richard Robeson, Featured Contributor
My great friend Richard Robeson has written and lectured extensively in the area of bioethics. An accomplished musician, he is also...
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The Plantation In “Disadvantaged” Research
On a recent Zoom call with an organization doing research on low-paid workers in the direct care industry, I was struck by an anomaly...
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Racial Inequities in Health
"Black men are more likely than other segments of the population to have undiagnosed or poorly managed chronic conditions (e.g.,...
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Doctors and Relationships
My first ‘doctor’ was my Mom. She had no training in medicine, but she nurtured and cared for eight children (six strapping, 6 foot plus...
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My Story
When people talk about health care “disparities” they are referring to a statistical result, not the actual prejudicial behavior that...
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The Birth of HB's Fearless Trauma Chasing
In most ways, as an older Black American male, I probably have an unusual background in terms of personal health. For over sixty years,...
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