General Internal Medicine ZSFG

STEP UP Grand Rounds

In San Francisco, the black population is significantly less healthy than other groups in the city; this community is also disproportionately impoverished.  Medical practitioners are often taught that both race and class are important determinants of health outcomes, however we are not often taught about why this is the case.  Come hear one physician's perspective on how American policies have created a crisis of Black poverty and ill-health in our city.