A portrait illuminates a metaphor for maldistribution of burden of disease, risk exposure, and long-standing inequity in health laid bare to the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.
E. Berryhill McCarty, MA, MSHCPM and Lance Wahlert, PhD
Global transformation demanded by COVID-19 prompts consideration of how prior epidemics have shaped our cultural and sociological understandings of health care experiences.
Furthering clinicians’ understandings of how daily practice can respond to Black patients' experiences can help restore trust and mitigate racial and ethnic health inequity.