Perspective: The District’s racial and income divide is cutting short the lives of black residents
By Courtland Milloy Courtland Milloy Local columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist May 14 at 2:12 PM The District’s latest “health equity” maps shows a city divided by race and income. How well you live, or sometimes whether you live at all, can depend on what side of the line you are on.
The disparities are stark, the consequences appalling. And the cause is no mystery. As the report notes, they are the result of “historical forces that have left a legacy of racism and segregation, as well as structural and institutional factors that perpetuate persistent inequities.”“The only way to truly discard this legacy is to craft a new one, built on a shared vision for equity,” it says.
On the health equity map, we see that infant mortality for babies with black mothers is three times higher than for babies with white mothers. We know that the mothers’ hypertension is a factor in these premature deaths — and that financial stress, relationship stress, work stress have a lot to do with it. But while working for gender equity in pay, let’s get that blood pressure down.Every black church should have a healthy heart ministry.
The National Institutes of Health funds all kinds of research aimed at reducing blood pressure, heart disease and other health disparities. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute recently funded a research project in Los Angeles County that successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of barbershops in curbing hypertension in black men.
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