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**Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger** Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system—and in __Just Medicine__ Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact, the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent, expanding wellness education programs and community health centers, and even expanding access...

Who reads Just Medicine : A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care?

Author

Dayna Bowen Matthew

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479899630

Category

health

Subjects

Medical, Science, Social Science

Rating

4.7 / 5 (352 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14