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- 3. "As enslaved people had limited or nonexistent access to healthcare or bodily autonomy, available ‘care’ often involved ________ medical experimentation (Health Equity)." [5]
- 4. “CDC is committed to COVID-19 vaccine ________, which is when everyone has fair and just access to COVID-19 vaccination. There are many social, geographic, political, economic, and environmental factors that create challenges to vaccination access and acceptance, that often affect racial and ethnic minority groups.” [19]
- 6. "Due to residential ________, majority African-American and Hispanic areas are more likely to lack hospitals and other health care providers." [12]
- 8. After a $10 million out-of-court settlement was reached in 1974 for the participants of the ________ Syphilis experiment, President Bill Clinton formally apologizes to victims on behalf of the United States government [9]
- 15. "Research has found that higher levels of ________ are associated with an elevated risk of a broad range of diseases from blood pressure to abdominal obesity to breast cancer to heart disease and even premature mortality." [10]
- 17. "...honoring three Black women for their unwilling role in the creation of modern gynecology (WSFA). Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey are the only known names of eleven enslaved women experimented on without ________ or anesthesia." [5]
- 18. "According to a study published in the journal of Psychoneuroendocrinology, racist experiences bring on an increase in ________ in African Americans. This increase in ________ raises the risk of becoming chronically ill." [12]
- 19. "As a cost-saving measure, ________, Mich., switches its water supply to the ________ River introducing lead-poisoned water into homes and creating a massive public-health crisis. Lead is toxic to humans. More than half of ________ residents are black." [9]
- 20. "A recent study found that people from racial and ethnic ________ groups were more likely to have increased COVID-19 disease severity upon admission at the hospital compared with non-Hispanic White people." [13]
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- 1. Black Americans are less likely than other racial groups to trust the health care system due to negative past experiences, including abuse by health researchers. One of the most deplorable examples was the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Research implications of this study led to rules and policies for human subjects research that have been reviewed and revised many times since then in efforts to promote the highest ________ standards in research. [22]
- 2. “The CDC’s COVID-19 Response Health Equity Strategy broadly seeks to improve the health outcomes of populations ________ affected by focusing on four priorities…” [14]
- 5. "Black and Latino patients are ________ as likely to receive no pain medication as whites for the same painful long bone fractures because of stereotypes that black and brown people feel less pain, exaggerate their pain, and are predisposed to drug addiction." [11]
- 7. "In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the ________ Project has figured out how to ensure that they have lowered the risks for heart disease for blacks in their mid-30s by providing high-quality day care from birth to age five." [10]
- 9. "Analysis of data from 41 health care systems...found lower use of monoclonal ________ treatment among Black, Asian, and Other race and Hispanic patients with positive SARS-CoV-2 test results, relative to White and non- Hispanic patients. mAb [Monoclonal ________ (mAb) therapies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19] treatment disparities might reflect systemic factors such as limited access to testing and care because of availability constraints, inadequate insurance coverage, and transportation challenges; lack of a primary care provider to recommend treatment; variations in treatment supply and distribution; potential biases in prescribing practices; and limited penetration of messaging in some communities about mAb availability and effectiveness to prevent disease progression." [8]
- 10. "________, a Boston enslaved person, told his owner about a procedure where he became immune to smallpox by exposing himself to the bacteria of someone with smallpox through an open wound, an early inoculation" [9]
- 11. "African-American women are three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than white women, for example, and the African-American infant ________ rate is twice the rate for white infants." [12]
- 12. The CDC’s COVID-19 Response Health Equity Strategy has the following guiding ________. “Reduce health disparities. Use data-driven approaches. Foster meaningful engagement with community institutions and diverse leaders. Lead culturally responsive outreach. Reduce stigma, including stigma associated with race and ethnicity.” [14]
- 13. "Samuel George Morton wrote "Crania Americana: Or a Comparative View of the ________ of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America," in which he claimed that black people had smaller ________ than white people and thus smaller brains. Experts contend this work provided the foundation of scientific racism." [9]
- 14. "The average American family spends around eleven percent of household income on health care ________ and out-of-pocket costs, but that amount approaches twenty percent for African American households." [12]
- 16. "Henrietta ________, a 31-year-old African American mother of five from Virginia, died of cervical cancer. Medical researchers use her cancer cells, known as the HeLa cell line." [9]