{"id":28441,"date":"2023-03-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=28441"},"modified":"2023-03-23T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T11:54:54","slug":"racism-root-cause-of-inequalities-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2023\/03\/23\/racism-root-cause-of-inequalities-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism root cause of inequalities, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Racism is the cause of health inequity, from birth through to adulthood and into later life, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/raceequalityfoundation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/CC167_REF_Briefing_Paper_vs4.pdf\">report<\/a>\u00a0by the Race Equality Foundation. Researchers looked at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingsociety.ac.uk\/\">Understanding Society<\/a>\u00a0data which found that racism is a key driver of ethnic inequalities in health, both directly and indirectly. It has an impact in childhood \u2013 with children from ethnic backgrounds being born at a lower birthweight and not hitting developmental milestones, to life-limiting long term illness, and mental illness in adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2.png?resize=600%2C384&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2.png?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racism is the cause of health inequity, from birth through to adulthood and into later life, according to a\u00a0report\u00a0by the Race Equality Foundation. Researchers looked at\u00a0Understanding Society\u00a0data which found that racism is a key driver of ethnic inequalities in health, both directly and indirectly. It has an impact in childhood \u2013 with children from ethnic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2023\/03\/23\/racism-root-cause-of-inequalities-report-finds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Racism root cause of inequalities, report finds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8548],"class_list":["post-28441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-racism-health-inequality-health-inequity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28443,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28441\/revisions\/28443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}