How are Health Care Workers Utilized in Health Equity Interventions? An Exploratory Review
Abstract
Health care workers play crucial roles in interventions and policies that promote health equity by providing culturally sensitive services, partnering with communities to promote population health, and addressing unconscious racial and ethnic biases in health care delivery. Despite their significance for eliminating health disparities experienced by historically marginalized communities, the roles that the health workforce plays within these interventions are not systemically monitored. In this study, we sought to understand how health care workers are expected to address issues of health equity in a burgeoning literature by answering the following questions:
1) Which health care workers have been charged with reducing health disparities?
2) Where are they positioned in the pathway toward improving health equity?
3) What training, if any, did they receive to address health equity?Authors:
van Eijk MS, Frogner BKJournal/Publisher:
Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of WashingtonEdition:
Sep 2022.Documents:
Full ReportCitation:
van Eijk MS, Frogner BK. How are Health Care Workers Utilized in Health Equity Interventions? An Exploratory Review Center for Health Workforce Studies, University of Washington, Sep 2022.Related Studies:
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