Teaching Systemic Racism in Pharmacy Curriculum is Essential to Improving Health Equity

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Teaching Systemic Racism in Pharmacy Curriculum is Essential to Improving Health Equity

December 6, 2021

Although some schools include topics on systemic racism in individual classes, speakers at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy said it must be a central theme throughout pharmacy school curriculums to prepare students and improve health care access for all.

In the session, titled “Teaching on Half the Story: The Case of Systemic Racism,” several presenters discussed the findings from a survey of 7 pharmacy schools’ curriculums. They found that systemic racism is a low priority in pharmacy schools and is typically taught briefly in a single course for first- or second-year students.

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/t...-health-equity

[JamesBond007]

Black people are more likely to be labelled Schizophrenic but the health care system is an ISA (ideological state apparatus) that is only concerned with the health of the working classes during times of imperial wars. Furthermore, psychiatry is a pseudo-scientific profession that was always used to police the working classes to protect bourgeous 'normalcy' from insurgencies. Psychiatry has no positive role to play in a Socialist society and needs to be abolished. Other than that I don't see how this applies to black people except in cases of increased hypertension and heart disease among blacks but this could perhaps be mitigated through preventative medicine and naturopathy. Big Pharma is corrupt to the core.... and modern concepts of disease and 'needed pharmaceutical' treatments or interventions are deceptive :

"The actual way of studying disease in any society is by analyzing its historical presence within the political, economic, and ideological power relations in that specific social formation. And by this, I do not mean the analysis of the natural history of disease but rather the political, economic, and ideological determinants of that disease, determinants resulting from the overall power relations which are primarily based on the social relations of production. These power relations are the ones which determine the nature and definition of disease, medical knowledge, and medical practice."

Navarro, V. (1980) ‘Work, Ideology and Science: The Case of Medicine’, Social Science and Medicine, 14(3): 191–205.


So, "improving access to health care for all" may sound good to most people but that is not necessarily the case.

[Anglo-Celtic]

There *is* systemic racism. It's called Affirmative Action.

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

They try so hard to create perpetual victims.