Racism has a cost for everyone | Heather C. McGhee

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Racism makes our economy worse — and not just in ways that harm people of color, says public policy expert Heather C. McGhee. From her research and travels across the US, McGhee shares startling insights into how racism fuels bad policymaking and drains our economic potential — and offers a crucial rethink on what we can do to create a more prosperous nation for all. "Our fates are linked," she says. "It costs us so much to remain divided." After the talk, Shoshana sits down with Dr. Aletha Maybank — physician, chief health equity officer and senior vice president of the American Medical Association — to discuss how our neighborhoods impact our health.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	This is the Ted Health Podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Dr. Shoshana Unger Lighter.
0:10.0	On today's show, a TED Talk from Heather McGee.
0:14.0	Heather's a public policy expert and a New York Times best-selling author.
0:18.0	Her talk is about how racism affects all of us.
0:22.0	Not just in some abstract moral sense, but also in the ways in which it
0:26.2	drains economic potential and so livelihood from our communities and our neighborhoods.
0:32.7	That's something I'll dig more deeply into
0:35.1	after the talk with Dr. Alita Maybank.
0:38.0	She's a pediatrician and she's also the chief health equity
0:41.2	officer and senior vice president of the American Medical Association.
0:45.9	Stick around to hear us talk about the surprising role that neighborhoods play in our health
0:50.1	outcomes, and why public health has to go further than just making sure
0:54.4	everyone has access to a clinic.
0:58.2	I'm Dr. Brian Goldman, host of the CBC podcast The Dose. Each week we answer health topics in a smart and sometimes counterintuitive way you won't hear anywhere else.
1:09.0	Like, what's the least amount of exercise I can do to get the benefits, which psychedelics can improve my mental health,
1:15.4	and how can I check for cancer if I don't have a family doctor?
1:19.4	Top experts help me bring you what you need to know in plain language in about 20 minutes.
1:24.4	Find the dose on the CBC Listen app or wherever you get your podcast.
1:30.2	I am a public policy wonk. I investigate data that points to problems in the American economy.
1:37.0	Problems like rising household debt, declining wages and benefits,
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