Beliefs based in pseudoscience made access to Virginia’s healthcare system harder for African-Americans across generations, according to the most recent installment of the Valentine’s ongoing series of conversations, Controversy/History.
Over 50 Central Virginians attended the latest program in the Controversy/Historyseries, “Healthy Community: Disease and Disparity,” to discuss racial discrimination in the history of the healthcare system.
Disparity in the healthcare system dates back 400 years, to when the first Africans arrived in Virginia. This was highlighted as part of the discussion life-expectancy rates in Richmond neighborhoods today. In Westover Hills, a predominantly white neighborhood, life expectancy averages 83 years. But in Gilpin Court, a historically black neighborhood on the North Side, life-expectancy is as low as 63 years.
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