Missing the forest for the trees: Is focusing on cultural competence undermining the elimination of health disparities?

dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Jim
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:06:24Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:06:24Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractData suggests that the millions of dollars and hours spent on attacking racial and other health disparities have yielded very little progress. For those of us hell-bent on reducing and eliminating disparities in care, this is rough to hear. My own work and interest in implicit bias and unconscious stereotyping (Project Implicit offers information on this topic as well as Implicit Association Tests) has led me to see social determinants and implicit bias as the two missing links in the health disparities puzzle. Ironically, these seem to be the two pieces most commonly left out when conceptualizing how health...
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dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/ecv9-sb4x
dc.identifier.citationAnderson, Jim (2011) Missing the forest for the trees: Is focusing on cultural competence undermining the elimination of health disparities? Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 3625
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/24170
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjectPolicy
dc.subjectimplicit bias
dc.subjectunconscious stereotyping
dc.subjectchronic societal stressors
dc.subjectsocial determinants
dc.subjectsystemic causes of ill health
dc.titleMissing the forest for the trees: Is focusing on cultural competence undermining the elimination of health disparities?
dc.typeArticle

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