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Race and Medicine: The Harm That Comes From Mistrust
Racial bias still affects many aspects of health care.
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Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is, however, i …
Quality of care by race and gender for congestive heart failure and pneumonia
Consistent racial differences in quality of care persist in basic hospital services for two common medical conditions. Physicians, nurses, and policy makers should strive …
Systemic racism and U.S. health care
This article draws upon a major social science theoretical approach-systemic racism theory-to assess decades of empirical research on racial dimensions of U.S. health car …
Racial and ethnic differences in access to medical care
The authors' review of the health services literature since the release of the landmark Report of the Secretary's Task Force Report of Black and Minority Health in 1985 r …
Variation in Amputation Risk for Black Patients: Uncovering Potential Sources of Bias and Opportunities for Intervention
Black patients are significantly more likely to receive an amputation than a salvage procedure when presenting with significant peripheral vascular diseases. High procedu …
TUSKEGEE AND THE HEALTH OF BLACK MEN
JEL Codes: I14, O15 For forty years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black males with syphilis des …
High Levels of Medical Mistrust Are Associated With Low Quality of Life Among Black and White Men With Prostate Cancer
Compared with white men, black men reported a higher level of medical mistrust (black = 2.7, white = 2.4; P < .001) and lower QOL (black = 134.4, white = 139.5; P <
…The impact of African Americans' beliefs about HIV medical care on treatment adherence: a systematic review and recommendations for interventions
Disparities in access to and retention of regular HIV medical treatment persist among African Americans living with HIV. Many scholars believe that the mistrust of health …
Attitudes and beliefs of African Americans toward participation in medical research
African-American participants in this study described distrust of the medical community as a prominent barrier to participation in clinical research. Participants describ …
Disproportionate Sterilization of Latinos Under California's Eugenic Sterilization Program, 1920-1945
Eugenic sterilization laws were disproportionately applied to Latina/o patients, particularly Latina women and girls. Understanding historical injustices in public health …
The Effects of Race and Racial Concordance on Patient-Physician Communication: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Despite mixed results due to measurement heterogeneity, results of the present review highlight the importance of training physicians and patients to engage in higher qua …
Patient-physician racial concordance and the perceived quality and use of health care
Our findings confirm the importance of racial and cultural factors in the patient-physician relationship and reaffirm the role of black and Hispanic physicians in caring …
Race, gender, and partnership in the patient-physician relationship
Our data suggest that African American patients rate their visits with physicians as less participatory than whites. However, patients seeing physicians of their own race …
Viewing Health Equity through a Legal Lens: Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Enacted as part of the watershed Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI prohibits discrimination by federally assisted entities on the basis of race, color, or national origi …
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