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Attention to, and acknowledging, how race and racism informs how health care professionals see their patients is critical to reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. You are invited to read this article for clarity toward reducing racial disparities in health care thus increasing patient-centered care and safety.
In Focus: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care by Confronting Racism
- Generation Z – the generation of people born in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Generally are known to be tech-savvy, pragmatic, open-minded, individualistic but also socially responsible. Swiping, tapping and scrolling are about as second nature as breathing. Source
- First Nation's People – Individuals who identify as those who were the first people to live on the Western Hemisphere continent. People also identified as Native Americans. Source
- Fundamental Attribution Error– A common cognitive action in which one attributes his/her own success and positive actions to his/her own innate characteristics (“I’m a good person”) and failure to external influences (“I lost it in the sun”), while attributing others success to external influences (“he had help, was lucky”) and failure to others’ innate characteristics (‘they’re bad people”). This operates on the group levels as well, with the ingroup giving itself favorable attributions, while giving the outgroup unfavorable attributions, as way of maintaining a feeling of superiority. A “double standard.” Source
Thank you,
Pam Bivens, M.A.
Diversity & Inclusion Educator
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