Make Mental Healthcare More Equitable. In the past, we’ve talked about racial inequality in the US Mental Healthcare system.(Check out our expose on Scientific Racism in the Mental Health Community below) We’ve also talked about organizations and individuals doing a lot of work to end systemic racism in the healthcare field. (See below!) Now it’s …
Hi everyone! Welcome to the latest episode of Black Voices of Mental Health. This week we’re covering a very important topic: Health Equity. In case you missed it last week, we talked about the effects of Scientific Racism on the US Mental Healthcare System. In that article we talked about how the long, insidious reach …
Have you ever heard of Scientific Racism? It’s a term you might be unfamiliar with, but it’s one we all need to know. Scientific Racism was a movement originating in the 1600s. Back then it was referred to as racial biology, inspired by the work of biologists Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, and later, Franz Joseph …
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