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11-01-2005, 08:42 AM
http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=SNYC,SNYC:2004-13,SNYC:en&q=racism%20St.%20Louis&sa=N&tab=wn
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Oct/20051031News014.asp
Advocate for uninsured blames racism for blacks’ health
An advocate for the state’s uninsured and underinsured said racism is partly to blame for blacks’ relatively poor health in St. Louis.
James Kimmey, president and chairman of the Missouri Foundation for Health, said Saturday that "the built-in racism and discrimination in our health-care system" treats some people as less deserving of quality health care.
"Those institutional barriers must be broken down," Kimmey said at a forum on eliminating disparity in health care.
The forum at Saint Louis University was sponsored by Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., and Donna Christensen, a Democrat who serves as the U.S. Virgin Islands’ delegate to Congress.
Bill Dotson, chief of the city’s Bureau of Family, School and Community Health, said a 2004 study by the St. Louis Health Department found that black residents in three ZIP codes continued to receive the poorest medical care and have the worst health in St. Louis.
Those ZIP codes - 63106, 63107 and 63113 - are in the northern part of the city.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Oct/20051031News014.asp
Advocate for uninsured blames racism for blacks’ health
An advocate for the state’s uninsured and underinsured said racism is partly to blame for blacks’ relatively poor health in St. Louis.
James Kimmey, president and chairman of the Missouri Foundation for Health, said Saturday that "the built-in racism and discrimination in our health-care system" treats some people as less deserving of quality health care.
"Those institutional barriers must be broken down," Kimmey said at a forum on eliminating disparity in health care.
The forum at Saint Louis University was sponsored by Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., and Donna Christensen, a Democrat who serves as the U.S. Virgin Islands’ delegate to Congress.
Bill Dotson, chief of the city’s Bureau of Family, School and Community Health, said a 2004 study by the St. Louis Health Department found that black residents in three ZIP codes continued to receive the poorest medical care and have the worst health in St. Louis.
Those ZIP codes - 63106, 63107 and 63113 - are in the northern part of the city.