Risky bodies and risk assessments: melanin is not a risk factor

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Public Health Scotland (PHS)

Join Dr Isioma Okolo, Consultant Obstetric and Gynaecological surgeon, in this engaging and thought provoking seminar. What is it about being Black or Brown that increases health risk factors? Is it melanin? If race is a social construct, not a biological phenomenon, do we do more harm than good when we use 'race' as a variable in treatment algorithms and risk assessments that do not acknowledge or account for the impact of systemic racism in medicine?

Published: 23/12/2024

Publisher: Public Health Scotland (PHS)

Keywords: Race

Type: Video

Audience: Medicine (audience); Nursing, midwifery and allied health professions (audience)