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Day 12: Racism and Toxic Stress
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

People of color suffer worse health outcomes than white people, even when controlling for income and other factors. These extreme disparities have been laid bare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn why these disparities aren't about race, but racism. Today, we will be learning about how daily exposure to discrimination results in toxic stress which negatively impacts the health of people of color.
TODAY’S CHALLENGE:

IF YOU HAVE:
Read about how racial discrimination and the stress it causes is literally aging people of color.
Watch this TED Talk about how research has found that higher levels of discrimination are associated with a broad range of negative health outcomes such as obesity, high blood pressure, breast cancer, heart disease, and early death.
Read this article about how the mental burdens of bias, trauma, and family hardship lead to unequal life outcomes for girls and women and girls and women of color in particular.
California has lead the way in establishing and using the ACEs Study to demonstrate the impact of adverse childhood experiences in determining future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health outcomes and opportunities. ACEs Expert, Pediatrician and California's Surgeon General, Nadine Burke Harris speaks to racism, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and toxic stress in the wake of George Floyd's murder.
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