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- We need to be open to identifying and controlling our own implicit biases. We need to be able to manage overt bigotry safely, learn from it, and educate others. These themes need to be a part of medical education, as well as institutional policy. We need to practice and model tolerance, respect, open-mindedness, and peace for each other.
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Oct 3, 2022 · There’s growing recognition of the health inequities people of color experience because of racism, implicit bias, and systemic marginalization. But efforts to tackle the root causes of such inequities and ease their impact on the nation’s collective health lag behind.
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- Why Are Certain Groups of Patients Getting Different Care?
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Doctors take an oath to treat all patients equally, and yet not all patients are treated equally well. The answer to why is complicated. Cases like my patient's above illustrate the negative assumptions and associations we can label racism, but "most physicians are not explicitly racist and are committed to treating all patients equally. However, t...
A colleague of mine, Dr. Altaf Saadi, recently wrote about her experiences treating patients at our own hospital. She has been questioned, insulted, and even attacked by patients, because she is a Muslim woman who wears a headscarf.5 She is not alone. Recent published reports include overt bigotry expressed towards doctors of black, Indian and Jewi...
Articles addressing racism in medicine suggest many of the same things. To fight racism and discrimination, we all need to recognize, name, and understand these attitudes and actions. We need to be open to identifying and controlling our own implicit biases. We need to be able to manage overt bigotry safely, learn from it, and educate others. These...
The Department of Health and Human Services, United States (HHS). National partnership for action to end health disparities: Offices of Minority Health(note: automatic download). Washington, DC, 2011.Rachel R. Hardeman, Ph.D., M.P.H., Eduardo M. Medina, M.D., M.P.H., and Katy B. Kozhimannil, Ph.D., M.P.A. Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives — The Role of Health Professionals. New Engla...King CJ, Redwood Y. The Health Care Institution, Population Health and Black Lives. Journal of the National Medical Association, May 2016.- hhp_info@health.harvard.edu
Health Canada established the Addressing Racism and Discrimination in Canada's Health Systems Program to foster health systems free from racism and discrimination. It also advances Health Canada's mandate to help everyone in Canada maintain and improve their health through high-quality, efficient and accessible health services and by reducing ...
Healthcare institutions have an important role in dismantling racism because of their ability to implement innovative solutions that advance diversity, address social determinants of health, and promote health equity.
Racism in health care and nursing is a systemic problem, leading to discrimination and health disparities. These issues need to be tackled aggressively at all levels. In 2020, CNA committed to actively confronting racism and dismantling oppressive systems that have created inequities within nursing and broader society.
In an era when concern about racism’s effect on healthcare outcomes has resurfaced as a national public health priority, it is surprising that so little research has focused on best practices for long-term impact in undoing racism and mitigating implicit biases in the clinical setting.
Oct 18, 2021 · Strategies for Combatting Racism in Health Care. Examining institutional policies with an equity lens. Establishing accountability frameworks such as equity scorecards. Auditing medical school curricula for erroneous references to race. Reviewing clinical algorithms that erroneously rely on race.
