Bias
Health Disparities in the US
Culturally Responsive Care
Health Equity
100

Withholding or delaying this is one of the ways that implicit bias can show up in healthcare

What is treatment? 

100

These women are more likely to die after being diagnosed with breast cancer

What is Black women? 

100

You can promote equal and fair care by using this type of language in patient interactions

What is person-first language? 

100

This is a frontline liaison between the health system and the people, they are a trusted member of the community and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community served.

What is community health worker?

200

This is one of the three skills that clinicians can use to lower implicit bias in care delivery

What is (any 1) perspective-taking, emotional regulation, or partnership building skills?

200

This population is less likely to receive chemo & radiation for prostate cancer

What is Black men? 

200

When taking a medical history from a patient with limited English proficiency, asking these types of questions are the most effective way to ensure the patient provides essential information about symptoms

What is open-ended questions or more directed questions? 

200

Conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, relate, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks is called?

What is social drivers or health OR social determinants of health?

300

This type of unconscious bias can show up as both a preference for certain people and an aversion or lack of trust in certain people

What is affinity bias?

300

This population is 3x less likely to receive clinically appropriate knee arthroplasty than others

What is women?

300

This is one of 8 tactics the AAFP suggests to reduce implicit bias, and it refers to the practice of evaluating people based on their personal characteristics rather than those affiliated with their cultural group

What is individuation? 

300

A theory or framework for conceptualizing an individual or group as having overlapping identities and experiences that may be affected by different forms of discrimination and disadvantage.

What is intersectionality? 

400

Extensive research finds that unconscious biases can lead to differential treatment of patients by race, gender, weight, age, language and this

What is either income or insurance? 

400

These patients are more likely to be blamed for being too passive about their health care

What is people of color? 

400

This is a universal tendency to believe that one's own worldview is superior to another's. It's often experienced in health care, particularly when the health care provider's own culture or ethnic group is considered superior to another

What is ethnocentrism?

400

According to the literature, controlling hypertension, Diabetes, Obesity and _____ will increase life expectancy by 5 years.

What is smoking? 

500

This is the age-range in which implicit pro-white bias can be present

What is ages 3-5 years old? 

500

A Lambda Legal study found that 70% of this smaller US population reported one or more discriminatory behaviors from health professionals including refusal of needed care

What is the transgender community?

500

This concept involves entering a relationship with another person with the intention of honoring their beliefs, customs, and values. It emphasizes lifelong curiousity, self-awareness, and appreciation of intracultural variation and individuality

What is cultural humility? 

500

At Cone Health, before the intervention, there was an 18.4% increased risk of a Black patient with pneumonia dying compared to a White patient with pneumonia, despite Black patients being how many years younger than white patients upon admission?

What is 10 years younger? 

800

This social issue can interact with cognitive biases to impact clinicians' behavior and clinical decisions

What is racism?

800

The people of this community are at a higher risk of experiencing trauma than the general population and are twice as likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder due to government issues like loss of land and forced assimilation

What is Native American/Alaska Native?  

800

Paying attention to nonverbal cues and being curious about what they mean to the patient is one way to demonstrate this type of responsive care

What is culturally responsive care? 

800

Rates of ED visits and hospital admission for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ASCSs) are increasingly used as a measure of the effectiveness of this.

What is primary care?

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