{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Leading Health | Building a Healthier Kansas","title":"Mindset #3: Race and Racism Matters","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2616,"description":"What if the systems we built to move people forward are actually the ones holding communities back? \n\nThis episode takes on one of the most important and most avoided conversations in public health: the relationship between race, racism and health outcomes. Joined by conversation catalyst, Kari Bruffett, President and CEO of the Kansas Health Institute, we explore the roots of health disparities and how leadership evolves when you confront the data, history and systems that dictate who thrives.\n\nHighlights\nMisconceptions about what led to the demise of Black Wall Street in Tulsa. \nThe difference between explicit racism and systemic racism, and why both matter for Health.\nWhy health disparities (the differences in outcomes) are not the same as inequities (the systemic reasons why).\nThe patterns that exist in Kansas’ data that uncover systematic disparities in capital H Health. \nHow redefining \"equity\" as equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcomes can open more productive conversations.\nHow policies of the past that are rooted in racism have effects on today’s Health outcomes, and how using tactics like data walks can foster greater systematic thinking. \nHow the Pathways to a Healthy Kansas project creates community conversations that focus on who benefits and who is harmed by current systems — without assigning individual blame.\nA call for the 30,000 Kansans in civic authority to lean into this conversation and start creating safe, facilitated spaces for it.\nChapters\n\n1:51 — Introducing Mindset #3: Race and racism really do matter\n4:30 — The story of Black Wall Street and Interstate 244\n5:28 — Explicit racism vs. systemic racism\n9:52 — The three books every person should read\n11:38 — Welcome back, Kari Bruffett\n12:21 — When did race and racism become a Health issue?\n14:04 — Kansas data: Infant mortality and maternal mortality disparities\n17:11 — Disparities vs. inequities: Understanding the difference\n21:38 — How systems thinking helps us understand...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0hQBt6xYK5BoKvJpJLVCG8i_hk6fL1i15b_orl1BAYg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81ZjM5/YzE4OTE0N2UyMmUx/YzRjNjBiYzVkZGVh/ZjZhZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}