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Sep 1, 2023 · Family physicians, like other health care providers, make health care decisions that, without acknowledgment and conscious effort to address personal racial bias, can adversely affect racialized patients.
Recently, growing calls for health equity and social justice have raised awareness of the impact of implicit bias and structural racism on social determinants of health, healthcare quality, and ultimately, health outcomes.
Research indicates that the implicit biases and racist attitudes of healthcare workers are fundamental contributing factors to race-based health inequities. However, few studies and reviews appear to have examined the provision and effects of anti-racist education and training on post-licensure healthcare workers.
May 16, 2022 · Research on healthcare staff’s racial attitudes and beliefs demonstrate a range of negative stereotypes regarding racialized minority healthcare users who are viewed as difficult. Research on implicit racial bias illustrates that healthcare staff exhibit racial bias in favor of majority group.
- Sarah Hamed
- Clinician Bias and Access to Health Care
- Racial Biases in Decision Making
- Inequitable Outcomes
- Conclusion
Access to health care helps us maintain our health and well-being. Because of institutional barriers and systemic inequities, (self-identified) Black people and other marginalized populations generally have lesser access to health care than White people.1 Like lesser access to health care, lesser access to quality education and public transportatio...
Health care workers harm Black people when they rely on their racial biases to develop care recommendations. For example, one study found that White medical students and residents who endorsed false beliefs about Black people’s tolerance to pain rated the Black patient’s pain as lower than the White patient’s and showed bias in their pain treatment...
Clinicians’ racial bias also contributes to Black people’s relatively worse health outcomes. For example, there are racial disparities in limb amputations necessitated by diabetes.7 Black people are more likely than White people to have their limbs amputated due to complications from diabetes, while White people with diabetes and related issues are...
To secure health and well-being, Black people must overcome harms to their health imposed by almost every aspect of the modern world—from environmental racism to housing inequities—simply because they are the target of racism. When they need health care to secure their health, they are faced with additional harms from health care practitioners who ...
Feb 17, 2021 · An Insights Council survey shows disparities in care delivery at health care organizations and interpersonal racism affecting clinicians and staff, but also many programs and training to...
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Jul 9, 2022 · A review of studies involving physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals found that health care providers’ implicit racial bias is associated with diagnostic uncertainty and, for...
