How Racial Bias in Healthcare Kills 80,000 People Each Year
The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 30, 2015
In Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care, Dayna Bowen Matthew reveals how over 80,000 black lives are lost each year due to health care disparities caused by unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. She's a professor at the University of Colorado Law School and the Colorado School of Public Health, as well as co-founder of the Colorado Health Equity Project, which aims to remove barriers to good health for low-income clients.
