This guide is designed to provide a starting point to advance evidence-based practice toward health equity and justice for all patients and communities.
This guide is created in response to how racism, homophobia and transphobia, settler colonialism, and other systems of inequity are present not only in the personal spheres of our lives, such as prejudice and behavioral patterns of hate, but also in the routines and policies of institutions, including healthcare. Systemic health disparities are one such manifestation of this inequity at the institutional level. Examples exist and pervade medical research and clinical practices, as black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), LGTBQIA+ communities, women, and people in poverty experience among the highest health disparities, with poor health outcomes and healthcare barriers often linked to socioeconomic and educational disparities as well as discrimination. Also consider how race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identities overlap to reinforce these systemic disparities.
You will find resources and techniques available through the Library and elsewhere to support the journeys of USAHS students, staff, and faculty in their commitment to healthcare justice and intersectional medicine. You can find recommended eBooks, scholarly literature, and other resources on the topics of topics ranging from racism in medicine to LGBTQIA+ health disparities, search strategies for finding relevant literature for your evidence-based practice, and ways to contextualize your research approach under an intersectional and inclusive framework.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Created by: Matthew Chase, MASP, MLIS
Last updated: May 25, 2022