Health Equity Requires Understanding Diversity of Patient Plus Coordinated Inclusion Strategy
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Major health systems are recognizing that health equity is only feasible when comprehensive, coordinated initiatives link quality of care to a culture of inclusion. Dr. Maria Hernandez, founder of Impact4Health, has seen increasing concerns and demands for more engagement among clinicians and administrators to address unconscious bias, culturally effective care and involving community partners in healthcare.
Creating a culture of inclusion is a strategic choice when it comes to recruitment, training and designing patient services in healthcare systems.
Treating everyone the same assumes all patients have the same resources or live in the same conditions and that’s painfully not the case.