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A key source that I looked at was a scholarly source titled " Implicit Racial/Ethnic Bias Among Health Care Professionals and Its Influence on Health Care Outcomes: A Systematic Review." It was written by William Hall, a professor at UNC Chapel Hill, et al. and it was publish in the American Journal of Public Health. I found this source using keywords such as " implicit bias," "healthcare," and "African-American." I did this in the American Journal of Public Health website, which has many great scholarly sources looking into the social determinants of good quality healthcare. This source was very helpful, and it is definitely a source that I will be using in my paper. This source showed that t he majority of healthcare workers have a positive implicit bias towards white people, and a negative implicit bias towards African Americans. Thus, I can use this source to explain why African Americans are being treated differently in healthcare, even whe...

The demographic that I chose to write about was the African American demographic. In America, African-Americans face a thought of systematic discrimination, from income-inequality to food-inequality, etc. Most notably, they face healthcare inequality. They receive less good healthcare compared to their white counterparts. Many African Americans feel they are unlistened to compared to their white counterparts. They feel as if their voices are diminished when they are trying to voice concerns about their symptoms (they feel as if they are belittled). One study found that even though when insurance status, income, and severity of conditions are comparable to white people, African Americans still receive lower-quality health care. Many healthcare providers have implicit bias, views about African Americans in which they are not consciously aware. This leads to African Americans being discharged faster from hospital. I need to do more research on this implicit bias, to back up the point that...