Health Equity

AMA calls racism a ‘public health threat’

Abstract: The American Medical Association declared racism a public health threat in an effort to highlight healthcare's role toward reducing racial discrimination and bias.

Publication: Modern Healthcare

Date Published: November 16, 2020

Author(s): Steven Ross Johnson

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