Implicit Bias: Related Topics in Health and Medicine
Provides resources on implicit bias, also called unconscious bias.
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Search Terms
| "cultural competency" | "healthcare disparities" | "discrimination in medical care" |
| "cultural competence" | "health status disparities" | "health and race" |
| "cultural humility" | "health status indicators" | "minority health" |
| "health equity" | "health services accessibility" |
Listen
- Cultural Competence for Oncology PracticeSeries of podcasts from the American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Seeing Through the Lens of Cultural CompetenceWith Dr. Delida Sanchez from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, University of Texas Austin
- Cultural Competence and Health Care DisparitiesWith Dr. Jordan Powell and Dr. Bernard Lopez, from the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association
15:03 minutes - Fixing Institutional Racism in Health CareDr. John Rich on Tell Me More from Tufts University
14:52 minutes; includes transcript - Identifying Health Disparities in the Treatment of Lung CancerDr. Sam Cykert on Chair's Corner from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:40 minutes; includes transcript
Videos
- How racism makes us sickTEDx talk with David R. Williams
17:27 minutes - My Journey to Discover Why Health Disparities ExistUniversity of Michigan 2017 Nancy Cantor Lecture with Thomas A. LaVeist
1:25:15 minutes - Diversity and Inclusion TEDx TalksVarious talks on diversity and inclusion
- Cultural Competence in HealthcarePresentation from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Office of Diversity and Inclusion
57:37 minutes - Dismantling Racism in Healthcare and EducationPanel Discussion with Indigenous Health Professionals and Allies to discuss solutions for creating a safe learning and healing environment with Indigenous peoples.
1:24:30 minutes - Health in the LGBTQ Community: Improving Care and Confronting DiscriminationHarvard University forum exploring health disparities and discrimination that impact the LGBTQ community.
58:54 minutes - Challenging Medical Ageism: A Path To Better HealthColumbia University Medical Center talk with Sheila Roher on challenging ageism.
14:29 minutes - Series of videos on health disparities researchEight videos from the National Research Mentoring Network
- Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?Investigates the impact of social, economic and physical environments on health status. Above and beyond the influence of genetics and health behavior, there is growing evidence to support the theory that inequities in the jobs we do, the wealth we enjoy and the neighborhoods in which we live can profoundly affect our longevity and health.
Readings
- National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health CareFrom the Department of Health and Human Services, the National CLAS Standards are a set of 15 action steps intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by providing a blueprint for individuals and health and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
- Cultural humility versus cultural competence: a critical distinction in defining physician training outcomes in multicultural education1998 article by Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia. Cultural humility is a term coined by the authors.
Books
Health Disparities in the United States : social class, race, ethnicity, and the social determinants of health by
The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this revised edition, Donald Barr provides extensive new data about the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity interact to create and perpetuate these health disparities. Examining the significance of this gulf for the medical community and society at large, Barr offers potential policy- and physician-based solutions for reducing health inequity in the long term.
Call Number: RA418.3.U6 B37 2019ISBN: 9781421432571Publication Date: 2019-08-20
Race, Ethnicity, and Health : a public health reader by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9781118049082Publication Date: 2012-10-16
Social Determinants, Health Disparities and Linkages to Health and Health Care by Call Number: WA 31 R432 v. 31 2013 v.31ISBN: 9781781905876Publication Date: 2013-09-23
Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9781118450185Publication Date: 2013-12-17
Economics of the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities by
In response to the growing concern about equity issues and their implications for overall development WHO established the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) in 2005 which focused on the social justice or human rights arguments for health investments. CSDH investigated the factors involved in the so-called social gradient in health which refers to the large observable differences in health outcomes within and between countries that are determined by avoidable inequalities in the access to resources and power. CSDH aimed to further investigate the causes of health inequities with a deliberate detachment from economic considerations and provide advice on how to tackle them effectively. CSDH also reviewed evidence for action on a wider scope of interventions than CMH many of which require intersectoral collaboration or advocacy. With CMH and CSDH having adopted different but perhaps complementary standpoints it soon became clear that greater synergies had to be forged between the two. This WHO resource book on the economics of social determinants of health and health inequalities seeks to begin to build a bridge between the two approaches by explaining illustrating and discussing the economic arguments that could (and could not) be put forth to support the case for investing in the social determinants of health on average and in the reduction in socially determined health inequalities. The resource book has two main objectives: . to provide an overview and introduction into how economists would approach the assessment of the economic motivation to invest in the social determinants of health and socially determined health inequities including what the major challenges are in this assessment; . to illustrate the extent to which an economic argument can be made in favour of investment in three major social determinants of health areas: education social protection and urban development and infrastructure.
Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9789240691148Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Rationing medical care on the basis of age : the moral dimensions by
Explores this issue and presents a critical argument on the nature of the possible crisis. Its in-depth philosophical analysis of the main ethical positions adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach. This book is important reading for healthcare policy makers and shapers and healthcare managers. Academics in ethics, philosophy, economics, and all healthcare disciplines will find it useful, as will public health specialists, health economists, and social scientists with an interest in health and medicine.
Call Number: RA413.7.A4 M27 2005ISBN: 9781315378251Publication Date: 2018-10-08
Music, health and wellbeing : exploring music for health equity and social justice by
This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing. It examines music participation as a determinant of wellbeing and as a transformative tool to impact on wider social, cultural and environmental conditions. Uniquely, in this volume health and wellbeing outcomes are conceptualised on a continuum, with potential effects identified in relation to individual participants, their communities but also society at large. While arts therapy approaches have a clear place in the text, the emphasis is on music making outside of clinical contexts and the broader roles musicians, music facilitators and educators can play in enhancing wellbeing in a range of settings beyond the therapy room. This innovative edited collection will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of music, social services, medical humanities, education and the broader health field in the social and medical sciences.
Call Number: ML3920 .M868 2018ISBN: 9781349952830Publication Date: 2017-12-15
The racial divide in American medicine : Black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care by
Documents the struggle for equity in health and health care by African Americans in Mississippi and the United States and the connections between what happened there and the national search for social justice in health care. Traces the dark journey from a system of slave hospitals in the state, through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era, to the present day. They substantiate that current health disparities are directly linked to America's history of separation, neglect, struggle, and disparities. Contributors reveal details of individual physicians' journeys for recognition both as African Americans and as professionals in Mississippi. Despite discrimination by their white colleagues and threats of violence, a small but fearless group of African American physicians fought for desegregation of American medicine and society. For example, T. R. M. Howard, MD, in the all-black city of Mound Bayou led a private investigation of the Emmett Till murder that helped trigger the civil rights movement. Later, other black physicians risked their lives and practices to provide care for white civil rights workers during the civil rights movement. DeShazo has assembled an accurate account of the lives and experiences of black physicians in Mississippi, one that gives full credit to the actions of these pioneers. DeShazo's introduction and the essays address ongoing isolation and distrust among black and white colleagues. This book will stimulate dialogue, apology, and reconciliation, with the ultimate goal of improving disparities in health and health care and addressing long-standing injustices in our country.
Call Number: RA563.M56 R334 2018ISBN: 9781496817686Publication Date: 2018-08-15
Multicultural social work practice : competency-based approach to diversity and social justice by
A thorough exploration of diversity and social justice within the field of social work, this book has been aligned with the Council on Social Work Education's 2015 Educational Policy and Standards and incorporates the National Association of Social Workers Standards of Cultural Competence. New chapters focus on theoretical perspectives of critical race theory, microaggressions and changing societal attitudes, and evidence-based practice on research-supported approaches for understanding the influence of cultural differences on the social work practice. The second edition includes an expanded discussion of religion and spirituality and addresses emerging issues affecting diverse populations, such as women in the military. Additionally, Implications for Multicultural Social Work Practice' at the end of each chapter assist you in applying the information you have learned. Multicultural Social Work Practice, 2nd Edition provides access to important guidance regarding culturally sensitive social work practice, including the sociopolitical and social justice aspects of effective work in this field. This thoroughly revised edition incorporates new content and pedagogical features, including: Theoretical frameworks for multicultural social work practice Microaggressions in social work practice Evidence-based multicultural social work practice New chapter overviews, learning objectives, and reflection questions
Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9781118551110Publication Date: 2016-12-18
Heart-Sick by
Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, affects people from all walks of life, yet who lives and who dies from heart disease still depends on race, class, and gender. While scientists and clinicians understand and treat heart disease more effectively than ever before, and industrialized countries have made substantial investments in research and treatment over the past six decades, patterns of inequality persist. In Heart-Sick, Janet K. Shim argues that official accounts of cardiovascular health inequalities are unconvincing and inadequate, and that clinical and public health interventions grounded in these accounts ignore many critical causes of those inequalities. Examining the routine activities of epidemiology--grant applications, data collection, representations of research findings, and post-publication discussions of the interpretations and implications of study results--Shim shows how social differences of race, social class, and gender are upheld by the scientific community. She argues that such sites of expert knowledge routinely, yet often invisibly, make claims about how biological and cultural differences matter--claims that differ substantially from the lived experiences of individuals who themselves suffer from health problems. Based on firsthand research at epidemiologic conferences, conversations with epidemiologists, and in-depth interviews with people of color who live with heart disease, Shim explores how both scientists and lay people define "difference" and its consequences for health. Ultimately, Heart-Sick explores the deep rifts regarding the meanings and consequences of social difference for heart disease, and the changes that would be required to generate more convincing accounts of the significance of inequality for health and well-being.
Call Number: RC682 .S48 2014ISBN: 9780814786833Publication Date: 2014-03-21
Racial prescriptions : pharmaceuticals, difference, and the politics of life by
In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is the desire to overcome racial inequalities in health; from heart disease to diabetes, the populations most afflicted by a range of illnesses are racialized minorities. The solutions generally proposed to the problem of racial health disparities have been social and environmental in nature, but in the wake of the mapping of the human genome, genetic thinking has come to have considerable influence on how such inequalities are problematized. Racial Prescriptions explores the politics of dealing with health inequities through targeting pharmaceuticals at specific racial groups based on the idea that they are genetically different. Drawing on the introduction of BiDil to treat heart failure among African Americans, this book contends that while racialized pharmaceuticals are ostensibly about fostering life, they also raise thorny questions concerning the biologization of race, the reproduction of inequality, and the economic exploitation of the racial body. Engaging the concept of biopower in an examination of race, genetics and pharmaceuticals, Racial Prescriptions will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in medicine, health, bioscience, inequality and racial politics.
Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9781138695696Publication Date: 2016-05-31
Black and blue : the origins and consequences of medical racism by
Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today. Black & Blue penetrates the physician's private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the general population. Within the world of medicine this racial folklore has infiltrated all of the medical sub-disciplines, from cardiology to gynecology to psychiatry. Doctors have thus imposed white or black racial identities upon every organ system of the human body, along with racial interpretations of black children, the black elderly, the black athlete, black musicality, black pain thresholds, and other aspects of black minds and bodies. The American medical establishment does not readily absorb either historical or current information about medical racism. For this reason, racial enlightenment will not reach medical schools until the current race-aversive curricula include new historical and sociological perspectives.
Call Number: RA563.M56 H63 2012ISBN: 9780520248908Publication Date: 2012-04-03
Additional Resources
- Advancing Heatlh Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative, and ConceptsFrom the American Medical Association/AMA Center for Health Equity and the Association of American Medical Colleges/AAMC Center for Health Justice. Designed for physicians and other health care professionals, the Guide provides guidance and promotes a deeper understanding of equity-focused, person-first language and why it matters.
- Words Matter: An Antibias Workshop for Health Care Professionals to Reduce Stigmatizing Language Julia Raney, MD, Ria Pal, MD, Tiffany Lee, MD, Samuel Ricardo Saenz, MD, MPH, Devika Bhushan, MD, Peter Leahy, MD, Carrie Johnson, MBA, Cynthia Kapphahn, MD,From the Association of American Medical Colleges/AAMC MedEdPortal:The Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources. Biased language influences health care providers' perceptions of patients, impacts their clinical care, and prevents vulnerable populations from seeking treatment.Training clinicians to systematically replace biased verbal and written language is an essential step to providing equitable care.Teaching health care professionals a framework to identify and replace stigmatizing language in clinical practice, the workshop includes a reflective exercise, role-play, brief didactic session, and case-based discussion.
- When Race Matters on the Wards: Talking About Racial Health Disparities and Racism in the Clinical Setting Katherine C. Brooks, MD, Steven Rougas, MD and Paul George, MD, MHPEFrom the Association of American Medical Colleges/AAMC MedEdPortal:The Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources.There is a growing body of literature illustrating the negative impact of racial bias on clinical care. Despite the growing evidence, medical schools have been slow to make necessary curricular changes. Most attempts to educate on racial health disparities focus on transferring knowledge and do not foster the development of skills to understand one's own bias or address bias and racism in the clinical setting. To address this, the authors developed a small-group, case-based curriculum for rising third-year medical students.
What is Health Equity?
Style Guides
- Diversity Style GuideResource for journalists and other media professionals from San Francisco State University
- Conscious Style GuideThe latest news, opinions, and guides on conscious language
Organizations
- World Health OrganizationHealth equity
- Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityNational Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
Search Strings
- Search strings for disability, gender and sexual minority, racial/ethnic populations, cultural competence model.[Butler M, McCreedy E, Schwer N, et al. Improving Cultural Competence to Reduce Health Disparities [Internet]. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2016 Mar. (Comparative Effectiveness Reviews, No. 170.) Appendix B, Search Strings. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK361121/]
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