Unfortunately, race was one of the concepts created when United States were founded. I appreciate the opportunities and my ancestors before me that made a drastic difference in public health such as John Snow and Edward Jenner. Race itself is not a risk factor but due to institutional racism, it created a large gap of health disparities of people. For example, African-American schools get less funding than other schools. Certain areas that are mainly populated by blacks are considered low in property value. When the Tuskegee experiment happened in Alabama back in the 1932 to 1972, the goal was to study how syphilis reacted in the poor African-American male population. The government agency that funded the study wanted to compared the results to that of the Caucasian population. Hardeman et al. (2018) research study mentions that institutionalized racism play an important role of the various barriers of health equity. There is a lack of how institutionalized racism play a huge role in health outcomes of minority races. Truthfully, there will not be any policies that will dismantled racism because racism will never go away. Our society will gauge one another using race and socioeconomic status and class.
According to the Belmont report, there are three basic ethical principles: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice. Our American society has failed to uphold these three ethical principles due to the Tuskegee experiment. Overall institutionalized racism does not care about ethical principles.
Hardeman, R. R., Murphy, K. A., Karbeah, J., & Kozhimannil, K. B. (2018). Naming Institutionalized Racism in the Public Health Literature: A Systematic Literature Review. Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974), 133(3), 240–249. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033354918760574
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