Preview

Racism is the reason for large, sustained health inequities in the United States. The February 2022 issue of Health Affairs will focus on racism and health and provide historical context about how the two have been linked.

Articles in the upcoming issue will highlight experiences from specific racial and ethnic communities, examine how structural racism causes racial inequities in health and opportunity, and describe racial inequities in health care access and use.

For a preview of what is to come, check out an ahead-of-print article in which Michael Sun and colleagues used machine learning techniques to analyze potentially stigmatizing language in electronic health records of patients seen at an urban academic medical center.

Their analysis found that Black patients had 2.54 times the adjusted odds of having one or more negative descriptors—such as "non-adherent" and "agitated"—associated with their records.

Read about topics like these and much more in the upcoming Racism & Health issue, to be released on Monday, February 7, and don’t miss out on the events accompanying the theme issue.

On Tuesday, February 8, from 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST, join Health Affairs for a free virtual symposium, "Racism & Health."

We are honored that Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, will address the group during the event. Another highlight includes the reading of "Identity," an original poem by Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, which will be published in the issue.

Racism And Health In US Medicine: A Conversation With Harriet Washington

To coincide with the launch of the February 2022 theme issue, "Racism & Health," Health Affairs will release a video interview with guest Harriet A. Washington on Tuesday, February 8, 2022.

Health Affairs Director of Health Equity, Vabren Watts, and Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President for the American Medical Association, Aletha Maybank, interview Washington, author of several books on medical ethics, including Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.

In the interview, Washington addresses the history of racism in medicine and research.

About Health Affairs

Health Affairs is the leading peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy. Published monthly by Project HOPE, the journal is available in print and online. Late-breaking content is also found through healthaffairs.org, Health Affairs Today, and Health Affairs Sunday Update.

Project HOPE is a global health and humanitarian relief organization that places power in the hands of local health care workers to save lives across the globe. Project HOPE has published Health Affairs since 1981.

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