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Racial bias fuels healthcare disparities. Unconscious bias meets algorithms. Black communities disproportionately affected. Sustainable healthcare changes. When we seek medical care, we all hope ...
Equity means that doctors can cater care so that people from historically marginalized groups can achieve their best possible health outcomes. Equity would mean finding out why there are ...
Additionally, members of the LGBT community contend with health care disparities due, in part, to lack of provider training and awareness of the population's healthcare needs. [115] Transgender individuals believe that there is a higher importance of providing gender identity (GI) information more than sexual orientation (SO) to providers to ...
This disparity is largely due to genetics, high obesity rates, and socioeconomic factors. Complications from diabetes, like kidney disease, are also more common among Black people. Efforts to ...
Dr. Eliseo Pérez-Stable on Health Disparities: Biology, Behavior, and Society. Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, is director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at ...
Health disparities refer to gaps in the quality of health and health care across racial and ethnic groups. [12] The US Health Resources and Services Administration defines health disparities as "population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to health care". [13]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." [1] Identified by the 2012 World Development Report as one of two key human capital endowments, health can influence an individual's ability to reach his or her full potential in society. [2]
Bias from health care providers, being under- or uninsured, lack of money to travel to major cancer centers, and low health literacy are all barriers to treatment in minorities, says Devarakonda ...