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Racial and Ethnic Bias

Content Manager: Brenda Proffitt, MHA

RACIAL AND ETHNIC BIAS IN AMERICAN MEDICINE
Audiotape of Jack Geiger, MD, at Sixth Annual Membership meeting of HCH Clinicians’ Network. June 2001.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
  • Assuring Healthcare Equity: A Healthcare Equity Blueprint. A collaborative work of the National Public Health & Hospital Institute, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and The Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, with support of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Minority Health | Washington, DC | September 2008
  • Making Health Equality A Reality: The Bronx Takes Action | Neil S. Calman | From the Field | Health Affairs | Vol. 24, No. 2 | March/April 2005 | pages 491 - 498 | ©2005 Project HOPE-The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
  • Out of The Shadow: A white inner-city doctor wrestles with racial prejudice | Neil S. Calman | Narrative Matters | Health Affairs | Vol. 19, No. 1 | January/February 2000 | pages 170 - 174 | ©2000 Project HOPE-The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
  • Raising awareness about racial and ethnic disparities in medical care