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ICE given access to Medicaid data in move critics call a privacy betrayal
(www.theguardian.com)
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The original sin was storing things like "ethnicity" in the database at all. What does ethmicity have to do with health?
a lot, lol. minority groups often have different medical needs than the majority, and ignoring those differences leads to worse outcomes for them. from a research perspective especially it's critically important.
Any sources? Your faux academic condolescence and "intersectionalist" babble alone won't do.
yeah i'm the one who's babbling lol. you couldn't bother googling 'racial disparities in health'?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10527840/
Racial disparities in health is tracking the social issues from racism both how it effects patients views on themselves and their care providers view of them.
The actual mapping of phenotype and hereditary to health based on it is not. It's a step above astrology as medicine, but still mostly bullshit pseudoscience that was wrong 200 years ago and has only gotten less scientific.
did you know that black people have a higher risk of being anemic
So have women. I haven't heard of higher death rates in regions (known as "the civilized world") )that do not differ their patients by "race".
You're stupid ass moron. That's all the "source" needed.
There are reasons to store race/ethnicity. One that is relevant to almost any scenarios is tracking discrimination.
Yes. Dr. Mengele and Alfred Rosenberg dedicated their live's work to these ideas.
Honestly, and people will argue in this thread that "actually there are some trends". No, not really. Race as always is a shit ass way to categorize people. Income has a tighter correlation for most things. What about genetics conditions they ask? Track fucking genotypes then. What about phenotypical conditions like melatonin correlation to sun burns? Again, that singular fucking attribute does a better job as measure the thing that fucking matters!
What doesn't do that is the social construct based on the most visable phenotypes associated with a region in the world over 200 hundred fucking years ago!!
Africa is a continent. What they found some peoples found in the southern Mediterranean regions had a shared reaction. To then go "Africans should avoid..." Is to do massive disservice to the practice of medicine.
No meaningful concept of race is used, so it is in fact meaningless. You might be able to group people into hundreds of haploid groups. But white, black, yellow, red, Asian, European, African, Native American, is so broad to be not just useless but actively harmful by providing misinformation as facts.