How racism affects health (Improver)

This report shows how the building blocks of health are experienced unequally by different communities of colour, and that there are patterns of inferior experience and greater hardship that cannot be explained through social class status alone. It shows how structural racism is a defining factor, not only acting to compound worse experiences shared by working-class communities generally, but to explain why people of colour are often locked into that social class status in the first place. Although this report does not explore the historical and colonial factors that shaped these disparities, it is important to acknowledge that many of these outcomes have their roots in earlier legacies of exploitation, extraction and associated migration patterns.