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.@DrIbram closing out the final #AAP2020 plenary

He cites one of the biggest challenges facing health care in its path to become anti-racist is that we need equitable distribution of resources.

“Those places serving communities with the greatest need should be getting the most”
“If you as a white provider are not stepping up to be antiracist & you see you black colleagues stepping up, you are burdening them w/the work alone” @DrIbram #AAP2020

Theme of the day!👇🏾
“To ensure pediatricians are treating all their patients equitably & have the resources to do so is so critical to our future...an antiracist Pediatrician is pure gold”
@DrIbram✊🏾

Thanks to @davhill & @JPBelinkieMD for moderating a great conversation & fitting end to #AAP2020 🙌🏾
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“When we fight to change children’s circumstances, THAT is when we keep children healthy. THAT is Socially-Responsive Pediatrics”

@DrOmolara opening up the final #AAP2020 plenary with powerful perspective
.@DrOmolara breaks down common frameworks:

Cultural competency doesn’t deliver justice

Structural competency doesn’t dismantle structural inequity

We need to move to Social responsiveness to deliver justice & dismantle structures of oppression

YES🙌🏾🙌🏾
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.@DrOmolara’s approach: bring care to the communities instead of working to fit communities into care settings w/historical trauma

Her practice has been setup next to community based organizations. In collaboration, no hierarchy

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Appreciate @AMLandryMD opening the #AAP2020 Minority Health Equity & Inclusion program by sharing his “origin story”

A patient asked him why all the black patients in his ED were put in the hallway

He studied that ? & found the patient’s observation to be true. His path was set
This strikes me as a particularly powerful example of why community needs to be at the table as we work to address structural racism in medicine.

They will see problems & solutions even the most antiracist of physicians, policy makers & researchers simply can’t.

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Next up is Joel Teitelbaum, JD talking about the intersection of policy, law & racism

First point: Structural Racism is our Nation’s Key Pre-Existing Condition

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Speaking at #AAP2020 Rev @CornellWBrooks starts by illustrating that #EmmettTill #TamirRice & #GeorgeFloyd are the recognized victims of police violence but that the trauma of over overpolicing is felt by whole communities & generations of children.
.@AmerAcadPeds section on Minority Health Equity & Inclusion Chair @DrHeardGarris has described this even more broadly as “vicarious racism”

Similar to secondhand smoke, vicarious racism has real impacts on child health

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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#BlackLivesMatter
Pediatricians have a place to help frame the story around racism & police violence’s impact on child health. @CornellWBrooks cites the impact pediatric providers had on the Supreme Court’s Brown v Board of Education decision.

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Looking forward to this talk by @BioethxMark on access to care for undocumented children in the US.
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There are ~2 million undocumented children in the US
6 states + D.C. provide healthcare coverage for undocumented children (props to CA, NY, IL, MA, OR, WA)

#Medicaid is available for children w/special healthcare needs

33% have no healthcare access

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Current options undocumented families have to access care for children:
🔹ER
🔹FQHCs
🔹Charity Care
🔹Donated Care Networks
🔹Safety Net Hospitals

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