Motivation has received increasing attention across counseling approaches, presumably
because clients' motivation is key for treatment effectiveness. The authors define motivation …

Background: Patient-centered care that encompasses informed decision making can
improve treatment choice, quality of care and outcomes. Patient-centered care recognizes …

Purpose—Our goal is to describe the effect of race and ethnicity on stroke epidemiology,
personal beliefs, access to care, response to treatment, and participation in clinical research …

Disparities in health care are of great concern, with much attention focused on the potential
for unconscious (implicit) bias to play a role in this problem. Some initial studies have been …

The impact of social and economic determinants of health status and the existence of racial
and ethnic health care access disparities have been well-documented. This paper describes …

BACKGROUND An important feature of patient-centered care is physician understanding of
their patients' health beliefs and values. OBJECTIVE Determine physicians' awareness of …

Social characteristics (eg race, gender, age, education) are associated with health care
disparities. We introduce social concordance, a composite measure of shared social …

BACKGROUND African Americans and persons with low socioeconomic status (SES) are
disproportionately affected by hypertension and receive less patient-centered care than less …

The Hui Process: A framework to enhance the doctor-patient relationship with Māori Page 1
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Poor patient–provider interactions may play a role in explaining racial disparities in the
quality and outcomes of HIV care in the United States. We analyzed 354 patient–provider …