Aversive Racism and Inequality in Health Care

• Review the Section III, "Framework Essay," and Reading 31 in the course text. Pay particular attention to aversive racism and health care access.
• Review the article, "Psychiatrists' Attitudes Toward and Awareness About Racial Disparities in Mental Health Care," and focus on methods for reducing aversive racism.
• Take the Race Implicit Bias test at the Project Implicit website.
• Identify two examples of racial or ethnic inequality in health care in the United States.
• Think about how aversive racism contributes to the examples that you identified.
• Consider methods for reducing aversive racism in your examples.

The Assignment (3–4 pages):

• Describe two examples of racial or ethnic inequality in health care in the United States.
• Explain how aversive racism contributes to the inequality illustrated in the examples (and thus in health care) you described.
• Explain methods for reducing aversive racism in your examples. Be specific and provide examples to support your explanation.
• Discuss how implicit bias might impact health care in the United States.