Social Determinants of Health Blog Post #2
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 the 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 when they have the same types of medical conditions and financial capabilities compared to their white counterparts.
Here is a link to the source: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302903
Again, I think it would help to operationally define terms, and reanalyze what is said in the papers. These are quite subjective responses, and while the white patients may receive better care, is there any indication that the African-American patients are receiving subpar care?
ReplyDeleteYep, there is a lot of information on this! For instance, African American patients are more likely to be discharged from hospitals earlier than white patients, even when their symptoms are the same.
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