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And so we come back to the path from discrimination to stress to poor health, and it begins to paint a picture that many people of color know to be true: racism is actually making us sick.
Consider this: immigrants, particularly black and Latina immigrants, actually have better health when they first arrive in the United States.
But the longer they stay in this country, the worse their health becomes.
People like me, born in the United States to Cuban immigrant parents, are actually more likely to have worse health than my grandparents did.
The beauty of Jennie's model is that she actually believes it can be implemented in pretty much any health care setting.
From conflict zones to climate change to all sorts of issues around crises in public health, we were missing what I call the species-level issues, because as a species, they could actually sink us.
Public health experts tell me that that actually cost us in human lives, because by sparking more panic and by sometimes getting the facts wrong, we made it harder for people to resolve what was actually happening on the ground.
Health concerns when there is no health system are also terrifying.
I came back to Boston, I became a physician, I became a global public health policy researcher.
Is there any way we can start to think about how to protect and quickly recover the institutions that are critical to survival, like the health system?"
That's when this landmark study that looked at and described the public health consequences of war was published.
And more invisible and yet more deadly is the destruction of the health governance institutions and their finances.
Doctors Without Borders is in Liberia because Liberia still doesn't really have a functioning health system, 11 years later.
But did you know that only two percent of that funding went to rebuild Haitian public institutions, including its health sector?
So as you can see, this is a frustrating topic for me, and I really try to understand: Why the reluctance to protect and support indigenous health systems and security systems?
And I will admit that I have met unsavory characters working in health sectors in these situations.
One of the unsung and untold success stories of our nation-building effort in Afghanistan involved the World Bank in 2002 investing heavily in identifying, training and promoting Afghani health sector leaders.
These health sector leaders have pulled off an incredible feat in Afghanistan.
They have aggressively increased access to health care for the majority of the population.
They are rapidly improving the health status of the Afghan population, which used to be the worst in the world.
Ninety-five percent of it goes to international relief agencies, that then have to import resources into these areas, and knit together some type of temporary health system, let's say, which they then dismantle and send away when they run out of money.
We, as the global health community policy experts, our first job is to become experts in how to monitor the strengths and vulnerabilities of health systems in threatened situations.
At our global health center, we have launched a new initiative with NATO and other security policy makers to explore with them what they can do to protect health system institutions during deployments.
We want them to see that protecting health systems and other critical social institutions is an integral part of their mission.
Because unless you understand the value of social institutions, like health systems in these fragile settings, you won't support efforts to save them.
I wonder what that means for that health system's ability to, let's say, detect influenza."
If the present is any indicator, our children will be under-educated, health maladies will take their toll and housing will continue to be unaffordable.
Discrimination: a fitness app can sell your data to a health insurance company, preventing you from getting coverage in the future.
Right now, we are in the midst of one of the greatest health crises of our time.
We see public health and public safety officials working hand in hand at the community level.
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