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How anti-black bias in white men hurts black men's health

  • Written by Shervin Assari, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health, University of Michigan
Discrimination creates gaps in care between white and black men. Rawpixel/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

Researchers have documented “large, pervasive and persistent” racial inequalities in the U.S. Inter-group relations are among the factors that contribute to such disparities, many of which manifest themselves in gaps in health care.

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