Medical Mistrust and Enduring Racism in South Africa.
Tessa MollPublished in: Journal of bioethical inquiry (2021)
In this essay, I argue that exploring institutional racism also needs to examine interactions and communications between patients and providers. Exchange between bioethicists, social scientists, and life scientists should emphasize the biological effects-made evident through health disparities-of racism. I discuss this through examples of patient-provider communication in fertility clinics in South Africa and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to emphasize the issue of mistrust between patients and medical institutions. Health disparities and medical mistrust are interrelated problems of racism in healthcare provision.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- south africa
- end stage renal disease
- mental health
- newly diagnosed
- public health
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- primary care
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- health information
- patient reported outcomes
- case report
- risk assessment
- hepatitis c virus
- affordable care act
- human immunodeficiency virus
- men who have sex with men
- health insurance