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?