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New Orleans? access to health care has improved over the last decade, but there remain significant gaps in coverage and racial disparities in the city?s health care system that have led to disproportionately higher rates of illness, disease and death among black residents.

A*report released by The Data Center*this week, in conjunction with its tricentennial series, reveals a stunning history of health care in New Orleans, from the foundation of a Charity Hospital in the 18th century to health epidemics and their cost to enslaved people, and how institutionalized racism in public health agencies through the late 1800s through the 20th century, and the failure to integrate hospitals well into the ?60s and ?70s, drove poor health outcomes.

?The historical and perpetuated oppression of black Americans, from the time of the city?s founding to present day policies and practices, has resulted in inextricable ties between race, socioeconomic conditions and population health,? the report says.?