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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.
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
Therefore, in this study we focus on interventions and aspects of care that have the potential to decrease or increase health inequalities while we put our findings and conclusions in the context of power organisation. Building on intersectional understandings of power, we have two aims.
- 2024/03
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 ...
In this article, we highlighted nurses have a responsibility to check their biases; support, facilitate, and empower patients’ voices and participation in all aspect of care decisions; and advocate for organizational and policy actions to eliminate health disparities and achieve health equity for all patient populations in the U.S.
