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HARP-517 |
| Title: |
Racial stereotyping and medicine: the need for cultural competence |
| Source: |
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 06/12/2001, Vol. 164 Issue 12, p1699, 2p |
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| Year: |
2001 |
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| Keywords: |
Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, human rights, non-discrimination, racial discrimination, health, institutions, health care, racism, ethnic minorities, civil and political rights, minority rights |
| Abstract: |
Comments on racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of medical care. Factors in treatment disparities, including differences in the diagnostic work-up and treatment of minority patients and institutional racism; Topic of doctor-patient communication; View that time pressure and cognitive complexity stimulate stereotyping and so-called application error, which is the inappropriate application of epidemiological data to every individual in a group. |
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Keywords: Canada, civil and political rights, cultural rights, economic, ethnic minorities, health, health care, human rights, institutions, minority rights, non-discrimination, racial discrimination/racism, social
