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Unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that influence understanding, actions, and decisions.
What is Implicit Bias?
Non-medical factors that influence health outcomes, such as housing, income, education, and environment.
What is Social Determinants of Health?
Healthcare that affirms the identities, needs, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other gender-diverse patients.
What is LGBTQ+ Inclusive Care?
A lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and learning, recognizing and challenging power imbalances, and fostering respectful partnerships.
What is Cultural Humility?
What is IT band?
Care that supports an individual's gender identity through medical, psychological, and social means.
What is Gender Affirming Care?
Brief, often unintentional insults or comments that convey bias against marginalized groups.
What is Microaggressions?
An approach that acknowledges the impact of trauma on health and behavior, and avoids re-traumatization.
What is Trauma-Informed Care?
The ability of patients to understand and act on health information.
What is Health Literacy?
The attainment of the highest level of health for all people, addressing avoidable inequalities.
What is Health Equity?
Systematic skew in clinical tools that leads to underdiagnosis or misdiagnosis in certain populations.
What is Bias in Diagnostic Algorithms?
The overlapping of multiple identities (e.g., race, gender, class) that can compound discrimination or privilege.
What is Intersectionality?
Active efforts to identify, challenge, and change the values, structures, and behaviors that perpetuate racism.
What is Antiracism in Practice?
Healthcare that addresses unique needs related to migration, trauma, legal status, and cultural context.
What is Refugee and Immigrant Health?
The availability of healthcare services in non-urban areas, which often face workforce and resource shortages.
What is Rural Health Access?
Patient forms that use inclusive language regarding gender, pronouns, and family structures.
What is Inclusive Intake Forms?
Psychological and physical impacts of trauma passed across generations, often through systemic injustice (e.g., colonization, slavery).
What is Generational Trauma?
Educational materials and counseling offered in the patient’s preferred language.
What is Multilingual Patient Education?
Identifying patients with unreliable access to nutritious food.
What is Food Insecurity Screening?
Skills and awareness required to provide respectful, equitable care to patients with physical, sensory, or cognitive disabilities.
What is Disability Competence?
Care for individuals without legal immigration status who may fear accessing services.
What is Care for Undocumented Patients?
Inequities in health outcomes based on zip code, urban segregation, pollution, and infrastructure.
What is Urban Health Disparities?
Ensuring protocols consider diverse populations and do not exclude or misrepresent marginalized groups.
What is Inclusive Clinical Guidelines?
The ability to recognize and respond to health inequities rooted in social, economic, and institutional systems.
What is Structural Competency?
Provision of interpreters or translated materials to help patients with limited English proficiency.
What is Language Access Services?