Race, Health Care and the Law - Regulating Racial Discrimination in Health Care

Published By :United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Published Date : September, 05 , 2010
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The first part of this paper will review data on racial disparities in health status in countries afflicted by racial divisions. The second part will discuss racial discrimination in health care, paying special focus on the United States where the issue of discrimination has been systematically studied by public health analysts. Part three will examine racialized conduct in health care research highlighting a few case studies: the Tuskegee syphilis study, the maternal-fetal HIV transmission prevention trials, and bioethics/legal principle of informed consent. Part four will discuss the legal reponses to racial discrimination in health care and health research. And part five will conclude the study by calling on governments to to take a pro-active role in uncovering and dealing with institutionalized racism, and by emphasizing the need for routine and systematic collection of health status and health care data that is disaggregated according to race, gender and socioeconomic positions.

Keywords :Gender in Medical Education (GME), gender, socio-economics, race, law, racial discrimination, health care, public health, issues of discrimination, maternal-fetal HIV transmission prevention trials, bioethics/legal principle of informed consent.

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