What is it about?
Health care workers faced extreme stress during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that Latinx, Black, Asian, and Multiracial health care workers were exposed to worse stressors than White colleagues, suggesting structural racism.
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Why is it important?
This study found evidence of structural racism in the health care workforce, at a large hospital in the Bronx, New York, during a time of extraordinary stress. These results are important because they suggest a need to reduce structural racism among health care workers and develop support systems for mental health.
Perspectives
As a White health care worker and researcher, I felt incredible urgency to write this article. It is our impetus to expose and mitigate how structural racism affects of work and the lives and well-being of our colleagues.
Aaron Breslow
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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This page is a summary of: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19-Related Stressor Exposure and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes Among Health Care Workers, American Journal of Psychiatry, November 2023, American Psychiatric Association,
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20220180.
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