Ryan Sutton, director of the African American Male Research Initiative at The University of Texas at Austin. Titled, “The Past Does Matter: a Nursing Perspective on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS)”, it argues that slavery was a major stress event for black people in the United States, with trans-generational effects that persist to the present. A recent article in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities makes this connection explicit. “I think there’s a difference between dwelling and ruminating on the past and intentionally thinking about or reflecting on your past in order to do two things: one, place context to your situation, and two, reclaim your narrative.” – Ryan SuttonĪccording to the World Health Organization, social determinants of health “are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age,” and “are mostly responsible for health inequities – the unfair and avoidable differences in health status.”īy this definition, history is a key social determinant of health.
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