Question

Describe why hospitals racially integrated nationwide. (Include in your answer the name of the city where the doctors were who pushed for hospitals to be racially integrated nationwide.)

Answer 1

Ans) Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation).

-In addition to desegregation, integration includes goals such as leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely bringing a racial minority into the majority culture. Desegregation is largely a legal matter, integration largely a social one.

- Although the passage of major civil-rights legislation in the 1960s compelled American hospitals to take concerted steps to achieve racial integration, nursing homes did not come under the same organizational and financial pressures to do so.

- As a result, nursing homes remained significantly segregated; to this day, there is a greater discrepancy between black and white people's access to long-term-care facilities than to acute-care hospitals.

The perspective of population ecology may be used to help account for these disparate historical outcomes; economics, demographics, and more subtle patterns of discrimination continue to reinforce forms of segregation in health-care facilities.