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The psychological impact of discrimination on health refers to the cognitive pathways through which discrimination impacts mental and physical health in members of marginalized, subordinate, and low-status groups (e.g. racial and sexual minorities).
Low SES (socioeconomic status) is an important determinant to quality and access of health care because people with lower incomes are more likely to be uninsured, have poorer quality of health care, and or seek health care less often, resulting in unconscious biases throughout the medical field. [12]
Gilbert C. Gee's study A Multilevel Analysis of the Relationship Between Institutional and Individual Racial Discrimination and Health Status found that individual (self-perceived) and institutional (segregation and redlining) racial discrimination is associated with poor health status among members of an ethnic group. [97]
A trip to the doctor’s office can be stressful, but many people of color in the US say they also expect to experience discrimination while seeking health care, according to a KFF Survey on ...
The post Study provides insight into how health care workers view discrimination against patients appeared first on TheGrio. Half of those surveyed cited racial, ethnic and other biases that can ...
Racism and discrimination must be acknowledged as public health threats in the fight to address global health disparities, according to a new study. The tendency among health professionals has ...
Geronimus specifically chose the term weathering as a metaphor for the effects she perceived that exposure to stress was having on the health of marginalized people. [10] While the weathering hypothesis was initially proposed based on observations of patterns in maternal health, academics have expanded its application as a framework to examine ...
These included publicly disclosing discrimination data as well as conducting educational trainings that tackle racism and implicit bias among health care providers. “We have a problem,” Doty said.