Together with artist Elissa Blount Moorhead, the Oscar-nominated DP has created work for a new show in Philadelphia on race and healthcare.
includes moments of transcendence and tranquility as well as alternative healing and body tuning through ritual, dance, sound therapy, meditation and well-being. Moorhead and Young's fourth collaboration, it was spurred by aof 222 white medical students and residents that revealed nearly half of them believed black patients experience less pain than others. Young is hardly surprised at the results of the study.
Blount Moorhead sees western medicine as a transactional system that puts basic human needs out of reach for many and seldom has the patient’s best interests at heart. With universal healthcare in the conversation this campaign season, some see capitalism as an obstacle to affordable rates. The average life expectancy for blacks is 75.4 years, with whites expecting 78.9. Blacks die at rates higher than whites among those suffering from heart disease, diabetes, stroke, HIV/AIDS, cancer, asthma, influenza and pneumonia, and homicide. Even more disheartening, 2015 Census Bureau statistics showed black children had a 500 percent higher death rate from asthma compared with white children.
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