How Does Segregation Affect Health Care

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This article is about the affect of segregation and how it affected and still does affect health care currently. The segregation is most prominent through African Americans. It goes onto say that segregated African American neighborhood are often more times poorer. When people are more poor then they get different health care than somebody with different circumstances. In the past during the early to mid 20th century the US has white supremacy, which meant that whites had more power and influence. Black people were more easily exploited by many and were taken advantage of. The article goes on to talk abut specific examples on how the treatment differed and how differently they were treated. This article ties in with our key focus because it

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