illustrationLast fall, Harvard T.H. Chan School of public wellness released the results of a series of surveys conducted in conjunction with National Public Radio and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Hither is a selection of the key findings. Read the full results at hsph.me/discrimination-polls.

Workplace

57% of black Americans reported discrimination in pay and consideration for promotions.

31% of all women say they accept been discriminated confronting when applying for jobs due to their gender.

Native Americans living in majority Native areas are more than twice as likely (54%) as those living in not-majority Native areas (22%) to say they take faced anti-Native bigotry in hiring, promotion, and compensation.

"Over the course of our serial, we are seeing again and once again that income is not a shield from discrimination"

—Robert Blendon, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Health Policy and Political Assay at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who co-directed the surveys.

Harassment

51% of black Americans say they have personally experienced people using racial slurs against them.

60% of women ages 18 to 29 study that they or a female person family member accept been sexually harassed.

35% of Asian Americans study personally experiencing people making insensitive or offensive comments or negative assumptions well-nigh their race or ethnicity.

David Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan Schoolhouse of Public Wellness and Professor of African and African American Studies and Sociology at Harvard University, says that the effects of experiencing discrimination, in both institutional and individual contexts, can accumulate over time and trigger an array of wellness problems, including elevated claret pressure level, centre disease, and even premature aging or mortality, among others. Williams says, "This poll helps us meet where we need to take action to address the problem."

Health care

9% of white Americans making under $25,000 per yr say they have avoided medical care out of concern they would be racially discriminated confronting because of their race, compared to 0% of white Americans making $75,000 or more per year.

22% of black Americans say they have avoided seeking medical care for themselves or a member of their family unit out of business concern they would be discriminated against because they are black.

16% of LGBTQ people report being personally discriminated confronting when going to a physician or health dispensary because of their identity.

"In addressing the health outcomes of individuals facing racial and indigenous discrimination, information technology is important to change the nature of the discussion nosotros are having. We are led to believe, on one side, that this is an upshot of political correctness, and on the other, that there is only a need to reply to individual instances of micro-aggression. But the long-term impact of these broad patterns of discrimination on health and economic outcomes must exist our shared focus."

—Dean Michelle Williams wrote in an op-ed published in conjunction with the serial in The Boston Globe in November.

Interacting with police

xxx% of LGBTQ people of color say they accept avoided calling the police, even when in need, out of concern that they would be discriminated against because of their orientation. Simply v% of white LGBTQ people reported this avoidance.

60% of black Americans say that they or a family unit fellow member has been unfairly stopped or treated past the police force because they are black.

Nonimmigrant Latinos are almost twice as likely (36%) equally immigrant Latinos (xix%) to say they or a family member take been unfairly stopped or treated by the police because they are Latino.

—Amy Roeder