The 2021 Joseph St Geme, Jr, Leadership Award Address: The Role of Structural Racism in Injuries to Children and Adolescents

The past two years have been marked in the United States by a national awakening to and intense focus on the pervasiveness of racism and its effects. An important part of this reckoning is to understand that the high rates of the most common cause of death for children and adolescents, intentional and unintentional injuries, is rooted in the history and consequences of structural racism in the nation.
Source: PEDIATRICS - Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research