October 1, 2021

Environmental racism and climate change-missed diagnoses – 09/22/2021

NEJM

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?myncbishare=dukemlib&dr=abstract&otool=dukemlib&term=34407333

A recent perspective piece in the journal, written by a provider caring for a pediatric patient with worsening asthma of unknown cause.  The author reflects upon environmental racism which “includes the use of racist practices in determining which communities receive health-protective infrastructures, such as green space, and which receive health-harming highways and industrial complexes.”

 

09/22/2021