Question

the discrimination in medical field in united state of American

Answer 1

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Discrimination means doing unjust or prejudice against people especially on the basis of race, age or sex and refusal to give them their rights.

* Discrimination on the basis of racial difference is most common than others like age, sex etc.

* Racial discrimination has deleterious effects on the physical and mental health of individual.

* Significant percentage of members of racial and ethnic minority population report experiencing discrimination in health care. They may be either health care providers like physicians or patients.

* Greater portion of African - Americans report experiencing discrimination than other groups.Hispanics and African American are greatly affected.

* Discrimination makes people not to seek medical care when they are unhealthy and not continuing treatment for the chronic illness, which leads to poor health maintenance.

* The mechanism of unconscious discrimination ( a form of racial or other bias thas operates beneath the level of consciousness ) by health care provider worsen the outcomes of health care delivery. This type of discrimination happens to patients even though the health care provider never intended to do it.

* Research conducted over more than four decades shows that individuals hold racial discrimination and bias of which they are not aware.

* Many patients of minority race feels that they are taken care poorly and negatively than white patients.

* Some evidence suggests that minority health care providers deliver more equitable care to their diverse patients than white providers.

* One longitudinal study among African Americans and White HIV positive patients enrolled in HIV care found that white doctors took longer time to prescribe protease inhibitors ( an effective HIV medication) for African American patients than for the White patients. Among African American providers, there was no difference between African American and white patients for prescribing medications.

* Ratial minorities live in poverty, with limited resources available, and less access to health care.

Measures to overcome discrimination in heslth care-

* Well planned allocation of health care facilities and resources to all people irrespective of race, ethnicity, age, sex, and socioeconomic status.

* Training to health care providers can help them identify their implicit biases and acknowledge them and avoid.