Browsing by Subject "Race"

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      10 Best resources on… intersectionality with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries 

      Larson, Elizabeth; George, Asha; Morgan, Rosemary; Poteat, Tonia (Health Policy and Planning, 2016-10-01)

      Intersectionality has emerged as an important framework for understanding and responding to health inequities by making visible the fluid and interconnected structures of power that create them. It promotes an understanding of the dynamic nature of the privileges and disadvantages that permeate health systems and affect health. It considers the interaction of different social stratifiers (e.g. ‘race’/ ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, class, sexuality, geography, age, disability/ability, migration status, religion) and the power structures that ...
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      Fostering Health Equity: Clinical and Research Training Strategies from Nursing Education 

      Deatrick, Janet A.; Lipman, Terri H.; Gennaro, Susan; Sommers, Marilyn; de Leon Siantz, Mary Lou; Mooney-Doyle, Kim; Hollis, Genevieve; Jemmott, Loretta S. (The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2009)

      Racism, ethnocentrism, segregation, stereotyping, and classism are tightly linked to health equity and social determinants of health. They lead to lack of power, money, resources, and education which may result in poor health care access and outcomes. Health profession faculties must address the complex relationships that exist between individual, interpersonal, institutional, social and political factors that influence health outcomes in both clinical and research training. Thus, the purposes of this paper are to provide examples of training ...