Master in Food Ethics and Law

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics

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  • Bioethics and Law Observatory
  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • University of Barcelona
  • Faculty of Law
  • Ave. Diagonal, 684
  • 08034 Barcelona
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • obd.ub@ub.edu
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  • Master in Bioethics and Law
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • master.bd@ub.edu

 

"Reparations as a Public Health Priority — A Strategy for Ending Black–White Health Disparities

The New England Journal of Medicine

There  has  not  been  a  single  year  since  the  founding  of  the United States when Black peo-ple in this country have not been sicker  and  died  younger  than  White people. A growing consen-sus  highlights  a  structural  basis  for  these  preventable  disparities  — structural racism — clarifying the  need  for  a  structural  solu-tion.  Black  reparations  are  one  such  solution  and,  we  believe,  a  long-overdue  approach  to  persis-tent  Black–White  health  dispari-ties in the United States.