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Muntu Davis is the Los Angeles County Public Health Officer. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser is the Interim Health Officer and Medical Director for Los Angeles County. With a budget of 893 million dollars, Public Health has 39 programs and 14 public health centers to serve 10 million LA County residents. [2]
Map of racial distribution in Los Angeles, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, or Other (yellow) The 1990 United States Census and 2000 United States Census found that non-Hispanic whites were becoming a minority in Los Angeles; estimates for the 2010 United States Census results found Latinos to be approximately half (47–49%) of the city's population ...
In 2020, 34% of homeless people in Los Angeles are African Americans despite being only 8% of the population. [33] In 2021, African Americans in Los Angeles County were more at risk for COVID-19. [34] [35] In the 2021, African Americans in Los Angeles had the highest COVID-19 hospitalization rate, as well as one of the lowest COVID-19 ...
Nike has responded to growing pushback from female athletes who have condemned the company for using transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in an advertisement featuring women’s apparel.
Addressing these structural issues is crucial for improving health equity and reducing the systemic disadvantages faced by racial and ethnic minorities. [21] Macias-Konstantopoulos et al. (2023) highlight how these factors disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), leading to significant health-care inequities.
The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure.
Justice for Janitors organizers drew upon lessons from the civil rights movement to conduct demonstrations that increased public awareness of the economic grievances and racial discrimination that service workers encountered in large urban areas, such as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Justice for Janitors was founded on June 15, 1990, when ...
The fear of the adverse repercussions prevented some Black youth from seeking mental health services [1] and African American mothers specifically had concerns around cultural mistrust. [13] Black adolescents dealing with emotional distress were significantly more likely to be terrified of what a doctor might say compared to White adolescents. [17]