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Final title: Decolonising Health Inequalities: Uncovering the hidden factors behind biological models of Caribbean and African health outcomes in Greater Manchester
Academic Lead: Faye Bruce
Publications and Outputs
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Introduction
For decades, there have been stark statistics pertaining to the high prevalence of cardiovascular related diseases (CVD) within the African and Caribbean Community in the United Kingdom (UK). This CVD health inequality alongside many more health conditions in this community such as diabetes, prostate cancer and mental health can almost be classed as an epidemic that requires urgent action.
Whilst undertaking my literature review, what became immediately apparent was the focus upon the biological/genetic reasons for CVD or the results of racism and discrimination (principally from the US) that are not hidden such as inequitable access to education, housing, health care, employment, and the unfair treatment in the criminal justice system. The evidence base identifies how a combination of all these factors can add to the incidence of CVD and other acute and chronic health problems. The studies generated from the literature search clearly identify a number of explanations that can lead to CVD health inequalities for African and Caribbean people. What the papers do not do is go far enough to interrogate and explain the institutional and systemic processes of structural discrimination/bias in decision making that may lead to poor health inequalities.
With that in mind, I have made it my task to explore how the structural processes of discrimination/bias are mediated to produce CVD health inequalities within an interdisciplinary framework of Critical Race theory and Intersectionality for people of African and Caribbean descent. The conceptual framework will unpack those hidden factors in relation to how the systemic structures were set up in the first place and how they may contribute to the oppression and continued prevalence of CVD in this community.
My research consists of two phases.
Phase 1 – Open Public Consultation
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Phase 2 – Expert Patient Action Learning Sets
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Pathways to Impact: Helping to shape Health Policy in Manchester
Caribbean and African Health Network in Greater Manchester (CAHN GM) and Health and Wellbeing Hub Research. Click here.
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Women’s Consultation Report, 30th July 2016
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