Colour coded health care

Colour Coded Health Care The Impact of Race and Racism on Canadians’ Health Sheryl Nestel PhD January, 2012 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sheryl Nestel received her PhD from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto where she taught between 2000-2011. [...] She is the author of numerous journal articles on race and the health pro- fessions as well as of Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-emergence of Midwif- ery (UBC Press, 2007) which was recognized as the book of the year for 2007 by the Canadian Women’s Studies Association. [...] We begin our review with a discussion of the concept of race and its relationship to health outcomes and then move to a discussion of the significance of racial inequities in health and the relationship of these inequities to other forms of social inequality. [...] Physicians for Human Rights notes that the “question of bias is central to human rights concerns” and that bias in health is a “double violation: of the egalitarian commitments and ethics of medicine and of the democratic prin- ciples of the larger society” (p. [...] Dennis Raphael, a central contributor to SDH theory in Canada, defines the social determinants of health as the economic and social conditions that influence the health of individuals, com- munities, and jurisdictions as a whole.