Racism in healthcare: a scoping review

S Hamed, H Bradby, BM Ahlberg, S Thapar-Björkert - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background Racism constitutes a barrier towards achieving equitable healthcare as
documented in research showing unequal processes of delivering, accessing, and receiving …

[HTML][HTML] Patients, families, and communities COVID-19 impact assessment: Lessons learned and compelling needs

F Isasi, MD Naylor, D Skorton, DC Grabowski… - NAM …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The health system exists to serve the most fundamental need of society: people's health and
well-being. To do so effectively requires engaging people as a partnership proposition in all …

Black representation in the primary care physician workforce and its association with population life expectancy and mortality rates in the US

JE Snyder, RD Upton, TC Hassett, H Lee… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Studies have suggested that greater primary care physician (PCP) availability is
associated with better population health and that a diverse health workforce can improve …

Association of surgeon-patient sex concordance with postoperative outcomes

CJD Wallis, A Jerath, N Coburn, Z Klaassen… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Surgeon sex is associated with differential postoperative outcomes, though the
mechanism remains unclear. Sex concordance of surgeons and patients may represent a …

Patient-physician racial concordance associated with improved healthcare use and lower healthcare expenditures in minority populations

A Jetty, Y Jabbarpour, J Pollack, R Huerto… - Journal of racial and …, 2022 - Springer
Background Racial concordance between patients and clinician has been linked to
improved satisfaction and patient outcomes. Objectives (1) To examine the likelihood of …

Health inequities and the inappropriate use of race in nephrology

ND Eneanya, LE Boulware, J Tsai, MA Bruce… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease is an important clinical condition beset with racial and ethnic
disparities that are associated with social inequities. Many medical schools and health …

Who do we invent for? Patents by women focus more on women's health, but few women get to invent

R Koning, S Samila, JP Ferguson - Science, 2021 - science.org
Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect
what is invented. Using text analysis of all US biomedical patents filed from 1976 through …

Beyond Tuskegee—vaccine distrust and everyday racism

SS Bajaj, FC Stanford - New England Journal of Medicine, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Beyond Tuskegee When we hyperfocus on a few historical racist atrocities, we ascribe
current Black health experiences to past racism, rooting our present in immovable past …

Eliminating race-based medicine

JL Wright, WS Davis, MM Joseph, AM Ellison… - …, 2022 - publications.aap.org
Race-based medicine has been pervasively interwoven into the fabric of health care
delivery in the United States for more than 400 years. Race is a historically derived social …

A critical review on the complex interplay between social determinants of health and maternal and infant mortality

RK Dagher, DE Linares - Children, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: US maternal and infant mortality rates constitute an important public health
problem, because these rates surpass those in developed countries and are characterized …