Equity 101
Giving everyone the exact same thing and expecting them to have the same outcomes.
Equality
This famous actress is an outspoken mental health advocate and started the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation to address mental health in the Black community.
Taraji P. Henson
Racism that occurs within organizations like schools or hospitals, and in other systems of power.
Institutional Racism
The act of giving permission for something.
Consent
Giving everyone what they need to be successful, which might be different from person to person, because everyone doesn’t start out in the same place.
Equity
A set of negative beliefs based on stereotypes that a society or group of people have about something.
Stigma
When a doctor or therapist has attitudes or assumptions toward a person, sometimes without even realizing it, that causes them to treat the person differently and often unfairly.
Implicit Bias
An agreement that a health care provider cannot share a patient’s information with others without the patient’s permission.
Patient confidentiality
A public health approach that tackles health differences which are avoidable, unnecessary, and unjust.
Health Equity
The World Health Organization defines this as the state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease
What is wellness?
This scientifically erroneous and immoral theory sought to "improve" the gene pool of a population through tools such as forced sterilization
What is eugenics?
Under these types of laws, youth ages 12-17 in California can access certain types of medical and mental health services without a parent or guardian's permission.
Minor Consent
Non-medical factors that have an impact on a person's health, such as racism, housing, socioeconomic status, and homophobia.
Social Determinants of Health
This condition is the most common mental illness in the United States, and is the leading cause of disability for Americans aged 15-44.
What is depression?
This field of medicine that mostly focuses on women's reproductive health was largely influenced by Dr. James Marion Sims, who was a white male doctor who conducted medical experiments on enslaved black women in the 1800s.
Gynecology
When a health care provider or therapist is required to report instances of abuse, neglect, or imminent risk to self or others.
Mandated Reporting
The preventable differences in health status between different groups of people that are caused by social, economic, environmental, or systemic factors.
Health Disparities
When the psychological impacts of adverse events or experiences are passed down from one generation to the next, often in unspoken and deeply complex ways.
Intergenerational trauma
This organization is a network of doctors working to end medical racism across the US.
White Coats for Black Lives
The first school in California to have a health center inside the school that provides confidential services to youth.
Balboa High School