Discrimination Giving Us Health Problems?
An article in HealthDay News talks about research that routine and even subtle discrimination can place mental stress that leads to chronic illness. The research was based on studying Asian-Americans of Chinese, Filipino, and Vietnamese descent.
They were asked to recall the frequency of “unfair treatment” they had been subjected to, including disrespect, discourteousness, insulting behavior, harassment, poor service, fearful reactions and/or assumptions of dishonesty or stupidity. They were also asked to recount their medical histories, including heart and respiratory illness, chronic pain, allergies, arthritis and asthma. Physician records were not reviewed.
The article is here: http://health.theledger.com/article/20070723/HEALTHNEWS/4558/-1/RSS2&source=RSS
If you were to ask me to recall my “unfair treatments”, yeah, I can definitely give you ones that range from a very early age to even recently. Did they make me mad? Yeah. Is it giving me health problems? I’m not sure. Regardless of the impact, we have to do with blatant or even subtle discrimination.
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