Independent Research Week Ten, Post One (Notes)

 

What Causes Racial Health Care Disparities? A Mixed-Methods Study Reveals Variability in How Health Care Providers Perceive Causal Attributions

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5862368/

• health care workers must be committed to addressing health care equity issues
• engagement among health care workers may depends on their perceptions of the factors contributing to inequity
• survey conducted among providers at Veteran Health Administration sites
• providers think social/economic conditions contribute to inequity more than patient/provider behavior
• believing providers contribute to inequity = more ready to discuss race and racism overall
• if providers do not see themselves contributing to issue, less likey to see themselves in the solution
• "individuals' causla attricutions for problems are important contributors to their beliefs about solutions"
• Beranrd Winers theory of social behavior
• people respond to an event by judging its cause
• outside of victims control = sympathy
• first wide scale look into health care disparities published in 2002
• increase in discourse surrounding systematic racism since the 2000s