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Webinars

Healthcare & Climate Change: Prioritizing Health Equity (AMA 2/1/23, 6pm PT) Join us as our panel and moderators discuss Health Equity and what attendees can do at the practice, local level, health system level now to improve health outcomes due to Climate Crisis. The program will examine the issue through the lens of medical practice/medical services and how the climate crisis has an impact on health outcomes. Attendees will leave the program equipped and educated on being trusted messengers that link climate crisis with health outcomes and health inequities.

What Can You Do for Your Patients?

Ask, rather than assign ethnic identifiers to provide informed care. "Ethnic identifiers should never be assigned. A patient should have autonomy in defining his own identity."
Take Pain Seriously: Racial Bias in Pain Assessment and Treatment Black Americans are systematically undertreated for pain relative to white Americans.
Spend Time With Your Patients Penner (2016) found that oncologists higher in implicit racial bias has shorter interactions, and patients and observers rated these oncologists' communication as less patient-centered and supportive.
A Social Psychological Approach to Improving the Outcomes of Racially Discordant Medical Interactions Establish common ingroup identity to improve patient/provider interactions.
Maximizing the Benefits of “We” in Race-Discordant Patient–Physician Relationships "The application of the common ingroup identity model is a promising strategy to reduce bias and poorer health care experiences in racially discordant patient–physician interactions." Martin, Cooper 2013
Suggested solutions to barriers experienced by marginalized populations during the COVID-19 pandemic Recommendations based on the American Society of Clinical Oncology and Society of Gynecologic Oncology

Health Equity Superstars to Follow on Social Media

Dr. Alisahah Cole, Vice President of Population Health, Innovation and Policy

Dr. Alisahah Cole, system vice president of population health innovation and policy at CommonSpirit Health, joins the Check Up to talk about the ways that organizations can tackle diversity, equity and inclusion in a more comprehensive way.

Lloyd H. Dean Reflects on Black History

Catholic Health Care Assocation - We Are Called

Catholic Healthcare Association - Confronting Racism by Achieving Health Equity Racism within any context is an affront to the core values of Catholic social teaching, which acknowledges the inherent dignity of each person, calls for the furthering of the common good and seeks justice through solidarity. Catholic health care recognizes the profound effect racism has on the health and well-being of individuals and communities and is committed to addressing the systemic causes of health disparities among underserved and vulnerable populations. As such, we are committed to working with partners who share these convictions to implement wide-sweeping change and eliminate the racial inequities in our marginalized communities.

Webinar & Position Paper by Dignity Health Physician, Dr. Rachel Bond, et al.

Webinar and Position Paper by Dr. Rachel Bond, System Director of Women’s Heart Health, Dignity Health, Member, Cardiovascular Disease in Women Committee, Association of Black Cardiologists

Working Agenda for Black Mothers : A position Paper From the Association of Black Cardiologists on Solutions to Improving Black Maternal Health

A summary of problems and solutions across the preconception to postpartum care continuum.

Source: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.120.007643

Implicit Bias in Healthcare

Become Aware of Your Implicit Bias

Click here to take the Implicit Association Test.

"Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaborative network of researchers investigating implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings that are largely outside of conscious awareness and control. Project Implicit is the product of a team of scientists whose research produced new ways of understanding attitudes, stereotypes and other hidden biases that influence perception, judgment, and action. Project Implicit translates that academic research into practical applications for addressing diversity, improving decision-making, and increasing the likelihood that practices are aligned with personal and organizational values."

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