Presentation from i c stars Cycle 51 for "Civics 101" for Fall of 2022.

1. INADEQUATE
HEALTHCARE
IN THE BLACK
COMMUNITY
CYCLE 51
Hidaya Davis

2. From education to
employment, income to
home ownership African
Americans endure a
range of inequalities …..

3. ….but the gaps in health
and wellness might be
the most ominous of
them all.

4. I believe the key to abundance in all sectors of your
life starts with your physical health

5. Food Deserts
Leading Causes
The Black Diet
Medical Racism
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6. What are food deserts?
- A food desert is an area with low to no access to
healthy and affordable food.
- ⅓ of the population lives greater than one mile
away from a supermarket for urban areas, or
greater than 10 miles for rural areas.

9. ● 1 out of every 4 black households are situated in
a food desert
● This leaves about 19 million people in America
without access to proper nutrition and a
disproportionate number is black.

11. The #1 leading
cause of these
health
disparities are
Food Deserts

12. The Black Diet
- “Soul food” a cuisine in the black community
consist of a host of delicious dishes but have
terrible dietary effects.
- Soul food typically involves fried foods, with lots of
fatty meats and with loads of sodium and sugars.
- This cuisine is prepared at family gatherings and
celebrations

13. The Black Diet Cont..
- “African-American Food and Nutrition: From Survival
to Choice,” Barbara Dixon (1997) points out some
interesting tidbits on how soul food originated.
- Since early African-Americans worked long, strenuous
hours in the fields, the food they ate had to be hearty.
-While this method worked for African-Americans in the
early part of the century, it has just contributed to the
high rates of obesity and etc

14. The Black Diet Cont..
- This diet is not without health implications
- 75% of black men and women develop high blood
pressure by their mid-50s, compared with 55 percent of
white men and 40 percent of white women
- Hypertension opens a gateway to heart attacks, stroke
and kidney failure

15. Medical Racism
Racial discrimination within healthcare
has created a negative expeirence with
minorites and healthcare providers.

16. Medical Racism
- This negative relationship between healthcare
providers and black people has had negative
impacts.
- A 2016 study found white medical students believe Black
people have a higher pain tolerance than white people.
- Of all the participants, 73% held at least one false belief about
the biological differences between races.

17. Medical Racism
- Because of the long racist history america has
sufficient healthcare is also not accessible
- Due to lack of sufficient access healthcare in our
communities, most black and brown people only
seek “catastrophic” health treatment instead of
“preventive” health treatment

18. Medical Racism
- This is why…
- The number one leading cause of death in black
people is heart disease with 23.7% , the 5th & 6th
being stroke and diabetes
- IN 2014 Black people have a lower life expectancy
than white people
- Black babies are 3-4 times more likely to die after
birth

19. My solution
- Eliminate food deserts, add more
supermarkets
- Better education in our school systems to
teach the true importance of nutrition.
- Better education in medical school

20. Who’s working on it now?
- There are multiple orginizations working to fix
food security, The Greater Chicago Food
Despository is one
- NAACP working to eradicate structural racism
- “Get up and move” campaign working on fixing
national nutrition in underserved communities