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Transparency and accountability in healthcare: bridging antiracism and quality improvement to advance health equity

Critical Public Health
The terms transparency and accountability appear in various disciplines and frameworks as organizational ideals or guiding principles for governance, but there is limited cross-sector analysis of what these terms mean and how they may be employed to ...
Ida Griesemer, Kristin Z. Black, Leslie R. M. Hausmann, Deborah Gurewich, Aditi Garikipati, Rabab Husain, Stephanie Baker   +6 more
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Healthcare as a Determinant of Socioeconomic Security – Regional Disparities in Poland [PDF]

Košická bezpečnostná revue, 2019
Healthcare constitutes essential determinant of socioeconomic security, both for individuals and in regard to national economies. It includes numerous elements, such as healthcare infrastructure, medical personnel and access to medical procedures and ...
Iwona PAWLAS, Ksenia PAWLAS
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Ethnic Minorities and their Health Needs: Crisis of Perception and Behaviours [PDF]

, 2014
There is considerable evidence to suggest that racial and ethnic disparities exist in the provision of emergency and wider healthcare. The importance of collecting patient ethnic data has received attention in literature across the world and eliminating ...
Association of Public Health Observatories., BBC News., Department of Health (DH)., Department of Health (DH)., Department of Health (DH)., Dorsett R., DWP., Halsall J. P., Ham C., Lee B., Modood T., Nickens H. W., Office for National Statistics., Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology., Platt L., Rees P., Richardson L. D., Richardson L. D., Simpson L., Smedley B. D.   +19 more
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Pediatric appendicitis rupture rate: a national indicator of disparities in healthcare access

Population Health Metrics, 2005
Background The U.S. National Healthcare Disparities Report is a recent effort to measure and monitor racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare. The Report is a work in progress and includes few indicators specific to children.
Guagliardo Mark F, Jablonski Kathleen A
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The role of culturally competent communication in reducing ethnic and racial healthcare disparities. [PDF]

, 2004
Promoting culturally competent communication at the provider, care institution, health plan, and national levels is likely to contribute to success in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in the receipt of high quality care.
Lurie, Nicole, Taylor, Stephanie L
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Clinical Uncertainty and Healthcare Disparities

American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2003
The Institute of Medicine Report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities, affirms in its first finding: “Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare exist and, because they are associated with worse outcomes in many cases, are unacceptable.” The mechanisms that generate racial and ethnic disparities in medical care operate at the
Bloche, Maxwell Gregg, Balsa, Ana I., McGuire, Thomas G., Seiler, Naomi   +3 more
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Starting the Conversation About Healthcare Disparities

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine, 2022
Description The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) put forth institutional requirements to implement healthcare disparity education in resident and fellow curricula in an effort to decrease these inequities. Healthcare disparities stem from many different factors.
Melissa D, Mendez, Sandra, Lopez, John H, Washington   +2 more
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Analysis of Compatibility between the Need and Utilization of Health Services in West of Iran: Panel of Two Cross-Sectional Studies [PDF]

Journal of Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics, 2023
Background: Individuals with the same needs are eligible to use required healthcare services, which is rarely taken into account in health systems. The present research evaluated this issue by investigating the determinants of the need for outpatient ...
Ali Soroush, Vajihe Ramezani Doroh, Mozhgan Fardid, Farideh Moradi, Nadya Baharirad, Sajad Vahedi   +5 more
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Healthcare Outcome Disparities in Trauma Care [PDF]

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2012
A recent article by Dr. Haider et al1, “Association between Hospitals Caring for a Disproportionately High Percentage of Minority Trauma Patients and Increased Mortality: A Nationwide Analysis of 434 Hospitals,” raised the question of whether there was an increased mortality risk among trauma patients treated at hospitals with higher proportions of ...
Danner, Omar K, Matthews, L Ray, Wilson, Kenneth L, Heron, Sheryl L   +3 more
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Tamiah N. McCoy - African American Women’s Birth Stories as Told To African American Women Interviewers [PDF]

, 2013
Background: A woman’s birth story allows each woman to tell her own perspectives about her experience of bringing a child into the world. As healthcare providers, it is always important to value listening to and learning from our clients.
McCoy, Tamiah N.
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