Section outline

  • Lecture:  Health care disparities

    Influential papers establishing health care disparities as a factor contributing to health disparities, as well as studies using novel methodologies to investigate and address health care disparities, including standardized patients and between and within hospital comparisons.

    Faculty:  Brittany Chambers

    Location:      MIssion Hall 1407

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch URL
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    • Required Reading:

    • Shavers et al. 2012 File
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    • Van ryn Coronaryartery File
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    • Li Y.JAMA.2011.Lect.2pdf File
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    • Optional Reading:

    • Bias Review 2017 File
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    • neff File
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    • Dehlendorf File
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    • dovidio File
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    • Anand healthcaredisparities File
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    • health equity curriculum File
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    • Assignment:

      Please consider these questions below when reading each article. If you are unable to attend the class session, please post answers to these questions to the forum by midnight on May 8th.

      If you are interested in more detail about the scope and causes of implicit bias among providers, you can review some of the optional reading. The Bias_Review provides an overall overview of the literature on implicit bias, including the fact that health care providers have consistently been found to have the same level of bias as members of the general population. The Dovidio article goes into more depth on the underlying nature of bias.

       

      Shavers:

      1.       What is the current prevalence of racial/ ethnic discrimination in health care settings?

      2.       Has the perception of or receipt of discriminatory health care changed over time?

      3.       How does racial/ethnic discrimination influence health in health care settings?

      4.       How do system level factors, such as institutional practices, policies and regulations contribute to discriminatory health care services?


      Van ryn:

      1.       What insight do the findings of this study provide about the origin of health care disparities?

      2.       How can the findings of this study be used to inform interventions designed to minimize health care disparities?

      3.       What hypothesis do you have for why there may have been differences by race in recommendations for men, but not women?

       

      Li:

      1.       Put into your own words what this study found, and what these results suggest as potential causes for health disparities.

      2.       What interventions would be warranted given these findings?