#structural-racism

#structural-racism

Emergency department visits for firearm injuries in the United States dropped slightly since 2020, but the rate in 2022 was still above pre-pandemic levels.According to a new study published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the weekly number of emergency department visits related to firearm injuries began to rise in March 2020 before sharply increasing in May 2020 and remaining high.

The city of San Francisco is moving one step closer to offering reparations to its Black residents.If the plan is enacted, San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to fund reparations.The city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee will present its findings Tuesday at a meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Obesity in young adult Americans rose from 33% to 41% over the timeframe of the study.M. Spencer Green/AP Diabetes and obesity two risk factors for heart disease are on the rise among young adults in the U.S., according to a newly published study of about 13,000 people ages 20 to 44 years old.The prevalence of diabetes climbed from 3% to 4.1%; obesity shot up from 32.7% to 40.9%, based on the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Sunday, which uses data from 2009 to 2020.

One of the UK's most successful schemes supporting students of Black heritage to get into Oxford and Cambridge universities is expanding to help children as young as three years old to achieve their academic potential.Target Oxbridge has worked with more than 800 Black British students, of whom more than 350 have secured Oxbridge offers.

A Tanzanian-born artist whose work explores racism and the marginalisation of women has said she is honoured she will have her first UK museum show after winning a major art prize.The Freelands Foundation has announced Edinburgh-based Everlyn Nicodemus and National Galleries of Scotland as the winners of the seventh annual Freelands Award.

SANTA CRUZ  For years a growing chorus of research has suggested that pulse oximeters, the clip-on blood oxygen measurement tool made ubiquitous by the COVID-19 pandemic, can produce inaccurate readings in darker-skinned patients.But experts say that until recently, little was known about the specific adverse clinical outcomes this potential bias could produce.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK must investigate structural racism as a key issue, a campaign group representing bereaved families has said.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Bereaved families are calling upon the government to investigate structural racism as part of the Covid-19 inquiry.The voices of communities disproportionately affected by the pandemic should be centred in the inquiry, a letter to chair Baroness Hallet reads.

The Covid-19 public inquiry is facing calls to consider structural racism in every part of its investigation after it emerged almost all minority ethnic groups were more likely to die from the virus than white British people.Earlier this month, the lead counsel to the government-commissioned inquiry said it was not planning to consider structural racism in the first module of the inquiry examining pandemic preparations.

Labour has reaffirmed its commitment to tackle structural racism after new analysis showed black households are five times more likely to struggle making energy bills repayments.Black and minority ethnic people were already 2.5 times more likely to be in relative poverty, and 2.2 times more likely to live in deep poverty (defined as having an income more than 50% below the relative poverty line), than their white counterparts regardless of the energy crisis, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.