Declaring racism a public health crisis.
Sponsored By: Representative Hayes
Introduced
Summary
This resolution would declare racism a public health crisis and call for a nationwide strategy to address the social and structural drivers of racial health gaps across housing, education, employment, and health care.
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- Families and infants: It highlights life expectancy gaps of about 4 to 10 years for Black, American Indian, and Alaska Native people and flags pregnancy-related mortality that is 2 to 4 times higher for some groups. Infants in several racial and ethnic minority groups are about 2.5 to 3 times more likely to die than White infants.
- Specific communities: The text documents higher cervical cancer rates for Hispanic women, cancer as a leading cause of death for many Asian Americans, high lung cancer among never-smoking Asian women, and elevated diabetes and cardiovascular deaths among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
- Public health and policy action: It urges cross-government response, more research and data disaggregation, support for local declarations, and targeted investments to dismantle systemic practices that drive health inequities.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Hayes
CT • D
Cosponsors
Ramirez
IL • D
Sponsored 2/6/2025
Watson Coleman
NJ • D
Sponsored 2/6/2025
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 2/6/2025
Brown
OH • D
Sponsored 2/6/2025
Cherfilus-McCormick
FL • D
Sponsored 2/6/2025
Carson
IN • D
Sponsored 2/6/2025
Jackson (IL)
IL • D
Sponsored 2/6/2025
Tlaib
MI • D
Sponsored 2/6/2025
McIver
NJ • D
Sponsored 2/6/2025
Johnson (GA)
GA • D
Sponsored 2/6/2025
Tokuda
HI • D
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Jayapal
WA • D
Sponsored 3/3/2025
Velazquez
NY • D
Sponsored 3/4/2025
Evans (PA)
PA • D
Sponsored 3/31/2025
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