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Importance Racial implicit bias can contribute to health disparities through its negative
influence on physician communication with Black patients. Interventions for physicians to …

Racial health disparities are a pervasive feature of modern experience and structural racism
is increasingly recognized as a public health crisis. Yet evolutionary medicine has not …

Stigma, defined as social devaluation and discrimination, involves identifying and labeling a
person with a socially undesirable trait and subjecting them to corresponding punitive …

Despite progress toward equity within our broad social context, the domains of gender as a
social, cultural, and structural variable continue to exert influence on the delivery of oncology …

PURPOSE To evaluate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other
sexual/gender minority (LGBTQ+) orientation as a burnout risk factor among an international …

OBJECTIVE: Black patients are three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes
than White patients in the United States, and Alabama has the third worst maternal mortality …

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are increasingly recognized as important within the
health care environment, however, persons of marginalized backgrounds remain …

Health inequity is defined as the systematic differences in health outcomes and health care
opportunities. 1 It is a significant issue for marginalized populations who often experience …

Clerkship grading is a core feature of evaluation for medical students' skills as physicians
and is considered by most residency program directors to be an indicator of future …