How Inequality Kills: Health Systems and Health Equity

2:25 – Introduction: Death Gaps; Naming Racism; Health Systems and Health Equity

3:10 – Death Gaps and US Life Expectancy

8:15 – Neighborhood Income Gaps / Chicago Death Gaps
Rush Hospital makes health equity a strategy, not a tactic

13:48 – 16-year old African American male on the west side of Chicago – he has a 50% chance of
living to 65. Why?

15:24 – Berrien County vs St. Joe’s in life expectancy
A 19-year life expectancy gap within 9 miles

17:20 – Social Determinants of Health and Inequity – an overview

18:36 – How health care inequities arise
Segregation and mortality in Berrien County

24:37 – Naming Racism
Why is it hard for whites to name racism?
It’s up to white people to speak up for change
Privilege and Racism
Six ways racism causes inequity

31:59 – How do we fix health inequity?
What are the solutions?
Equity is an inside-out and outside-in strategy

39:49 – West Side United
Rush Hospital’s goal to decrease life expectancy by 50% by 2030

Part of a three-year series featuring local and nationally recognized speakers, Moving Our Community Toward Health Equity is designed for professionals in medicine, allied health fields, and social work, as well as government leaders and community members.
The third event in the Community Grand Rounds series will feature David Ansell, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Community Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
Learn more about Rush’s strategy to be a catalyst for community health and economic vitality on Chicago’s west side and how those strategies can be applied here in southwest Michigan.