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while external causes such as homicides and accidents dominated among those aged 5 to 19. For adults, circulatory system diseases contributed the most to the mortality gap.
So not racism or anything like that then.
Who are the people committing homicide against black people? Other black people, overwhelmingly so. And racism isn’t causing circulatory system diseases in black people lol.
Tl;dr: Black on black homicide, and disease.
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There are so many factors to consider, but the main things one should research in terms of disparate health outcomes are: Income, access to healthy food, access to a healthy environment (again see income and housing disparities,) and access to medical care (see income again as well as bias in healthcare that affects outcomes.)
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-273.pdf
https://www.nrdc.org/bio/nina-sevilla/food-apartheid-racialized-access-healthy-affordable-food
https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2014/spring/racial-food-deserts/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4638275/
https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/who-is-at-risk/disparities
Black people are more likely to be impoverished. This means they have fewer choices and access issues when it comes to housing. They are more likely to live in areas that are affected by different types of pollution; which have long term health impacts. They have a harder time accessing healthy food because there are less likely to be decent grocery stores in their communities. If you read the article, you know that black babies are more likely to die of perinatal conditions, which are health conditions before, or right after birth, (see my point about access to healthcare and disparity of health outcomes based on race.)
While racism that causes these disparities isn't overt, it's baked in beneath all of these complex factors. Racism is absolutely a factor, it's systemic racism.
And the black on black homocides, just going to ignore that? Or is that racism too?
Racist policies such as redlining which can cause greater exposure to things such as lead (for one single example) can absolutely impact generational health development. So, yes, racism can cause circulatory disease.
I think you have the wrong platform; this is Lemmy, not an alt. right shithole.
And black on black homicide? Racism causing that?
I’m well aware that Lemmy is a faaaaaaar left commie platform.
Classic symptom of an impoverished community. Could be caused by systemic racism or historical events.
Is there a single problem in the black community that isn’t caused by systemic racism in your opinion? Doesn’t seem like it.
I'm sure there are. But usually when things are present in groups of a specific race, it's related to some form of racism.
*babies and adults of all races
Sure, but this article is pointing out that black babies are dying at double the rate of white babies.
I agree all lives matter but in a post trying to draw attention to the racial inequality issue, saying that is not constructive. In fact it can be seen as hand waving away the issue being discussed.
then why is tge article titled that? clickbait or disinformation?
What about it do you consider to be inaccurate or "clickbait"?
it excludes all races except blacks
It doesn't explicitly exclude them. It just focuses on black babies because that's the topic.
don't worry, all those pro life people that are now in power will for sure do something to protect the unborn...
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