Healio (5/3, Gramigna) reports, “Structural racism in the United States has had a significant effect on psychosis risk at the individual and neighborhood levels, according to results of a review paper published” online May 3 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association, and discussed during a press briefing at the American Psychiatric Association’s virtual annual meeting. The review “assessed possible risk factors for and effects of structural racism in the U.S. in three areas, which were neighborhood disparities; trauma/stress experienced on individual and collective levels; and pregnancy-related complications,” revealing that “inequitable access to health care, healthy foods, education and employment opportunities and safe housing perpetuated disparities in U.S. neighborhoods for Black and Latino individuals.”
Related Links:
— “Structural racism a ‘critical public health threat,’ increases psychosis risk “Joe Gramigna, Healio, May 3, 2021