MIAMI (CBSMiami) — The COVID-19 pandemic introduced racial inequities in our healthcare system to the forefront. Now, a brand new documentary “The Color of Care,” which is govt produced by Oprah Winfrey, exposes these disparities.
“The Color of Care” exposes a nationwide well being disaster, one delivered to gentle by the COVID-19 pandemic. It options firsthand accounts from those that misplaced family members to the coronavirus. It additionally traces the origins of racial well being disparities to chronicle how folks of coloration endure from systemically substandard healthcare within the United States.
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Yance Ford is the director. “I have to say that the history that’s in the film about where inequities in medicine come from. That history was new to me as it will be to anyone who watches the film on Sunday, and so to learn those lessons was difficult,” mentioned Ford.
Healthcare specialists, like Dr. Hetty Cunningham, communicate to how embedded racism performs a task in healthcare. She says the documentary goes past the statistics.
“Every time you hear a story, you’re reminded of the humanity behind the numbers,” mentioned Dr. Cunningham.
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The Smithsonian Channel and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions partnered to launch the documentary that appears to be the beginning of a reckoning round well being fairness.
“I think that if we can start to get to a place where we all see each other first as humans and deserving of the kind of care that we would like to receive, that we can actually make some headway on this,” mentioned Ford.
“I think that our country places have very high premium on fairness. We see ourselves as a, as a, as a fair and equal society, and this, this film really starts to say, maybe we need to take a closer look at that,” mentioned Dr. Cunningham.
They need the movie to create a deeper understanding of what adjustments are wanted to serve all.
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“The Color of Care” is launching a year-long marketing campaign on the subject aimed toward bringing collectively impacted communities with medical colleges, healthcare employees and coverage makers to advance extra equitable options.