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- Focusing on common qualities of interventions, we found that to reduce health inequalities, general practice needs to be informed by five key principles: involving coordinated services across the system (ie, connected), accounting for differences within patient groups (ie, intersectional), making allowances for different patient needs and preferences (ie, flexible), integrating patient worldviews and cultural references (ie, inclusive), and engaging communities with service design and delivery...
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It is important to identify effective ways so that general practice can play its role in reducing health inequalities. Objectives: We explored what types of interventions and aspects of routine care in general practice decrease or increase inequalities in health and care-related outcomes.
Despite the significance of the findings, the evidence regarding interventions that can effectively reduce health inequalities in general practice is still limited and disparate. Most of the available evidence reviews focus on research trials with often small samples and variant study quality.
- 2024/03
In our study, we found that lack of cultural understanding and implicit bias can increase health inequalities in general practice. Evidence as such highlights the need for more studies on the interconnection(s) between structural racism, healthcare worker and patient experiences of discrimination, and care outcomes in general practice.
- 2024/03
This realist review will examine the existing evidence on the types of interventions or aspects of routine care in general practice that are likely to decrease or increase health inequalities (ie, inequality-generating interventions) across cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- John Alexander Ford, Anna Gkiouleka, Isla Kuhn, Sarah Sowden, Fiona Head, Rikke Siersbaek, Clare Bam...
- 2021
Focusing on common qualities of interventions, we found that to reduce health inequalities, general practice needs to be informed by five key principles: involving coordinated services across the system (ie, connected), accounting for differences within patient groups (ie, intersectional), making allowances for different patient needs and ...
Jan 30, 2019 · Structural interventions that successfully address health disparities and improve minority health are disease-agnostic in their approach, enabling them to tackle common risk factors that lead to multiple health disparities, thereby altering the context(s) that yield social inequalities.
