disparities in health observed for racial/ethnic minority populations. However, often little information or consideration is given to the social history and current social climate that is responsible for racial/ethnic socioeconomic disparities, namely, the role of racism/racial discrimination. The research on health disparities has focused on the relationship between demographic/clinical characteristics and health outcomes in main-effects multivariate models. This article explores the effect of targeted marketing of harmful products and environmental justice is also discussed as they relate to racial/ethnic disparities in health. Her study revolves around the Racial/ethnic disparities in health are the result of a combination of social factors that influence exposure to risk factors, health behavior and access to and receipt of appropriate care. This article I found will help my paper delivery the views of literature that has been conducted on the role that discrimination in education, housing, employment, the judicial system and the healthcare system plays in the origination without being bias.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Precis Research on Race/Ethnicity and Health Care Discrimination: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
Shavers have done research with a 2008 nationwide Gallup
Poll conducted June 5–6, 2008, 56% of those surveyed agreed that racism against
African Americans was widespread. Data from the National Latino and Asian
American Study show that 30% of Latinos perceived that they had been
discriminated against. The purpose of this study was to investigate the biases,
stereotypes and prejudices prevalent in the general community held by our
medical or other institutions. The research was focus on the year 2008 United
Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) urged then
President George W. Bush’s administration to “take effective actions to end
racist practices against minorities in the United States in areas of criminal
justice, housing, healthcare and education. Through this study this help the
author develop an understanding the awareness of racial/ethnic disparities in
access to care, receipt of treatment, health status, and health outcomes. This
research will help my paper because it provides meaningful data and insight number
of factors are posited to underlie these disparities including socioeconomic
status, lack of health care knowledge, cultural beliefs and preferences, and
racial/ethnicity-based discrimination
Summary Aversive Racism and Medical Interactions with Black Patients
In the article, “Aversive Racism and Medical Interactions with
Black Patients “by Louis A. Penner, John F. Dovidio, Tessa V. West and etc.
The argument of the scholarly article dialogs how racism in the medical field
between black and nonblack patients are less helpful and creative than the same
race getting help in the healthcare. According to the authors approximately 75%
of all medical interactions for Black patients in the US are “racially discordant”
that is, they involve nonblack health care providers. Moreover, relative to
racially concordant medical interactions, racially discordant interactions are
characterized by less patient trust, less positive affect, fewer attempts at
relationship building, and less joint decision-making. Although provider bias
has been proposed as a contributor to such outcomes in racially discordant
interactions, it has not, as far as we know, been directly investigated. Therefore,
more often it is not always reported. The question is how these problems can be
approached to help reduce aversive racism. So, according to “Aversive Racism and Medical Interactions with
Black Patients,” there are mixed messages conveyed by aversive racists
during interracial interactions can interfere with effective social
coordination and jointly affect Blacks and nonblack’ abilities to work together
successfully. For example, dyads consisting of a black participant and a white
aversive racist performed less effectively than dyads involving blacks with whites
who had in agreement with explicit and implicit attitudes and ironically, even
those with high explicit and high implicit bias.
Precis Aversive Racism and Medical Interactions with Black Patients
In their article, “Aversive Racism and Medical Interactions with
Black Patients: A medical interactions between black patients and nonblack
physicians are usually less positive and productive than same-race interaction Louis
A. Penner, John F. Dovidio, Tessa V. West and etc., investigated the role that
physician explicit and implicit biases play in shaping physician and patient
reactions in racially discordant medical interactions. They hypothesized that
whereas physicians’ explicit bias would predict their own reactions,
physicians’ implicit bias, in combination with physician explicit
(self-reported) bias, would predict patients’ reactions. They had done a study
that predicted that patients would react most negatively when their physician
fit the profile of an aversive racist. The theory of the study showed the effects
of explicit bias on physicians’ reactions were partially supported. However the
black patients had less positive reactions to medical interactions with
physicians relatively low.
Summary Racism in Healthcare: Its Relationship to Shared Decision-Making and Health Disparities
In their article, “Racism
in Healthcare: Its Relationship to Shared Decision-Making and Health
Disparities: a response to Bradby,” Monica E. Peek, Angela Odoms-Young,
PhD, Michael T Quinn conducted a study to point out the important questions
about racism, patient/provider communication is U.S. health disparities.
According to “Racism in Healthcare,”
“There are three levels of racism: institutionalized racism,
personally-mediated racism and internalized racism. Institutionalized racism,
defined as differential access to goods, services, and opportunities by race,
includes differential access to health insurance, which study participants
described as a contributing factor to communication disparities between
African-Americans and their physicians. It is imperative to note that
institutional racism does not require personal bias commonly associated with
term ‘racism.’ This type of racism, termed personally-mediated racism, is defined as prejudice. After going
through the study, there were significant developments in these areas, with Prejudice
and discrimination that may manifest as disrespect, poor service and failure to
communicate options, all of which our study participants described in their
experiences within the U.S. healthcare system. They attributed differential
physician assumptions and behaviors (“they just talk right at the patient
because they are black”) specifically to being African-American, indicating
participants’ perceived influence of race on patient/physician encounters. There
were studies that indicated the Healthcare providers may harbor racial biases
personally mediated racism, and may be at increased risk of using stereotypes as cognitive short-cuts
because of clinical encounter characteristics time pressure, high cognitive
demand, limited resources and uncertainty. There is evidence that physicians
hold stereotypes based on patient characteristics (race), which may influence
their interpretation of patient behaviors and symptoms, and consequently their
clinical decisions. For example, one study found that physicians were more
likely, after controlling for confounding variables, to rate their
African-American patients as less educated, less intelligent, more likely to
abuse drugs and alcohol, and less likely to adhere to treatment documented the
association between implicit physician bias and racial disparities in
treatment.
Precis Racism in Healthcare: Its Relationship to Shared Decision-Making and Health Disparities
In her article, “Racism
in Healthcare: Its Relationship to Shared Decision-Making and Health
Disparities: a response to Bradby,” Monica E. Peek, Angela Odoms-Young,
PhD, Michael T recognizes that the important questions about racism, patient/provider
communication is U.S. health disparities. In her article, she shows the conceptualize
racism in healthcare and evidence for racism in the current U.S. healthcare
system. In order to get her argument across, she shows disentangle racial
discrimination from discrimination based on other social factors. Since “Racism in Healthcare” is a revolving is
there evidence that link the patient/provider relationship and communication
disparities to population-level health disparities. Are there potentially
effective solutions to address institutional racism, particularly unconscious
provider bias?
Working Thesis
Racism is one of the world’s foremost known issues
throughout world’s history. Many people are not aware of how much racism still
exists in our health care faculties. There have been a lot of problems concerning
healthcare discrimination because it hasn’t only been towards the socioeconomic
status, but also towards race.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Summary Race and Micro aggression in Nursing Knowledge Development
In the article, “Race and Micro aggression in Nursing Knowledge Development “by Joanna Hall I believe the argument of the scholarly article talks about how racism in the nursing scoop has became more of a spectrum and that a micro aggression has been elevated to better understand why racism is into the medical field. According to Hall the micro aggression Policy changes, diversity programs, and new organizational frameworks can be useful in decreasing discrimination in a general way, though enforcement of these changes also depends ultimately on individuals within structures and how they interact with POC and make decisions about specific cases. Interpersonal racism can be overt, such as name-calling and bullying. More often in contemporary environments, it is subtle and oblique, especially in language and nonverbal behavior of white people. It talks about how they should revaluate what cause racial slurs throughout the work place. Is it the ethnicity that causes a big riot? How can we as the people fix this problem? What steps should go into revising racism throughout the medical field. Why do some many people get look upon if they don’t have good insurance if your skin color different or if you can barely speak English but trying to receive medical attention in today’s medical field. The main question is how to truthfully enforce methods to stop racism. According to Hall we recognize that race and racism are embedded in language and that as maintain a postmodern perspective might best be used to untangle the sociolinguistics involved in constructing these terms. We suggest consulting for further exploration of language and race in nursing. In this article, the term people of color (POC) is inclusive of many ethnic groups who have characteristic skin colors including red, yellow, brown, black, and white, but it is a problematic term because it is usually based on the presumption that white people have no color, and that they are still the referent group to which others are compared
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Precis "Race and Micro aggression in Nursing Knowledge Development
In his article "Race and Micro aggression in Nursing Knowledge Development” (2012), Hall asserts that race is a social environmental element in many nursing knowledge contexts. She explores how race and racism have been concept in nursing research and theory, situating these issues in the debate between Critical Race Theory and post racialism. Contemporarily, racism is more subtle than overt. Hall supports there facts with Subtle racism takes the form of micro aggressions in everyday discourse and practices by whites toward African Americans. This occurs with little to no awareness on the part of whites. Using this concept, practice and education are explored. Her purpose is to inform America that we hold that micro aggression contribute to stress for the target person, which may partly account for racial health disparities.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Nursing Racism
1. Racial slurs
2.Discrimination against men
3.Sexual Orientation
4. Sex/ gender/ age
5. Ethnics
6. Health Insurance
7. Moral ethics
8. Diabetics
9. Who can be doctors
10. Stereo type
11. Disease
12. Multi culture
13. Law suits
14. Communications
2.Discrimination against men
3.Sexual Orientation
4. Sex/ gender/ age
5. Ethnics
6. Health Insurance
7. Moral ethics
8. Diabetics
9. Who can be doctors
10. Stereo type
11. Disease
12. Multi culture
13. Law suits
14. Communications
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