“The “ability to access” the functionality of a system or entity, and gain the related benefits. The degree to which a product, service, or environment is accessible by as many people as possible. Accessible design ensures both direct (unassisted) access and indirect access through assistive technology (e.g., computer screen readers). Universal design ensures that an environment
can be accessed, understood, and used to the greatest extent possible by all people”

Source: https://edib.harvard.edu/files/dib/files/dib_glossary.pdf

“Refers to the intentional design or redesign of technology, policies, products, and services (to name a few) that increase one’s ability to use, access, and obtain the respective item. Each person, regardless of ability status, is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use. Although this might not result in identical ease of use, any person with a disability must be able to obtain information, to which they are otherwise permitted to access, in a timely manner as fully, equally, and independently as a person without a disability.”

Source: https://www.diversity.pitt.edu/education/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-glossary

Conscious/ Explicit Bias: “Prejudices that you are aware of and that usually discriminate against people or groups; usually involves malicious intent.”

Unconscious/ Implicit Bias: “Beliefs and attitudes that operate outside of a person’s awareness and control. Unconscious bias can be in direct contrast with the beliefs and values you think you hold. You may not even be aware that you hold these biases, or that they are affecting your attitudes and behaviours.”

Includes: Affinity Bias, Attribution bias, Ageism, Beauty bias, Confirmation bias, Conformity bias, Contrast effect, Gender bias, Cognitive biases (Includes: Actor-observer bias, Anchoring bias, Attentional bias, Availability heuristic, Confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger effect, False consensus effect, Functional fixedness, Halo effect Misinformation effect, Optimism bias, Self-serving bias

Source: https://cpdonline.co.uk/knowledge-base/safeguarding/types-of-bias/

“The exploitative historical, political, social, and economic system established when one group or force takes control over a colonized territory or group; the unequal relationship between colonizer and the colonized.”

Source: https://www.diversity.pitt.edu/education/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-glossary

“The tax of extra responsibilities placed on minority faculty in the name of efforts to achieve diversity —but this unfair tax is, in reality, complex. Unlike taxes, (which are theoretically shared by all) the following responsibilities are not shared equally by all faculty, and disproportionately burden URMM [Underrepresented Minority in Medicine] faculty.

The URMM faculty responsibility “tax” or disparity includes the following categories: responsibility for achieving diversity efforts, racism, isolation, mentorship, clinical, and promotion inequities.

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271707956_Addressing_disparities_in_academic_medicine_What_of_the_minority_tax

“Power is unequally distributed globally and in society; some individuals or groups wield greater power than others, thereby allowing them greater access and control over resources. Wealth, whiteness, citizenship, patriarchy, heterosexism, and education are a few key social mechanisms through which power operates. Although power is often conceptualized as power over other individuals or groups, other variations are power with (used in the context of building collective strength) and power within (which references an individual’s internal strength). Learning to “see” and understand relations of power is vital to organizing for progressive social change”

Source: https://canvas.ubc.ca/courses/31444/pages/2-dot-1-key-terms?module_item_id=1553268

“An unearned, sustained advantage that comes from race, gender, sexuality, ability, socioeconomic status, age, and other differences.”

Source: Harvard (https://edib.harvard.edu/files/dib/files/dib_glossary.pdf)

“The social, economic and political advantages or rights held by people from dominant groups on the basis of gender, race, sexual orientation, social class, etc. Unearned social power (set of advantages, entitlements, and benefits) accorded by the formal and informal institutions of society to the members of a dominant group (e.g., white/Caucasian people with respect to people of color, men with respect to women, heterosexuals with respect to homosexuals, adults with respect to children, and rich people with respect to poor people). Privilege tends to be invisible to those who possess it, because its absence (lack of privilege) is what calls attention to it.”

Source: The University of British Columbia (https://vpfo.ubc.ca/edi/edi-resources/edi-glossary/#:~:text=be%20more%20appropriate.-,Privilege,orientation%2C%20social%20class%2C%20etc.)

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TNGC) clients have complex mental health concerns, and are more likely than ever to seek out treatment. This comprehensive resource outlines the latest research and recommendations to provide you with the requisite knowledge, skills, and awareness to treat TNGC clients with competent and affirming care.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=feFiDwAAQBAJ&dq=gender+affirming+care&lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The term “ageism” refers to two concepts: a socially constructed way of thinking about older persons based on negative attitudes and stereotypes about aging and a tendency to structure society based on an assumption that everyone is young, thereby failing to respond appropriately to the real needs of older persons.

Ageism is often a cause for individual acts of age discrimination and also discrimination that is more systemic in nature, such as in the design and implementation of services, programs and facilities. Age discrimination involves treating persons in an unequal fashion due to age in a way that is contrary to human rights law. The Ontario Human Rights Code prohibits age discrimination in: employment, housing accommodation, goods, services and facilities, contracts and membership in trade and vocational associations.

(https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/ageism-and-age-discrimination-fact-sheet)

Report shows how systematic bias against the elderly hurts older patients in America and cites serious medical short-comings in medical training, prevention screening and treatment patterns that disadvantage older patients.

Ageism: How Healthcare Fails the Elderly. (2003). United States: Alliance For Aging Research.google.ca/books/edition/Ageism/5V6IGwAACAAJ?hl=en

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms

Run a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why black women are so sassy” or “why black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society.

Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. United States: NYU Press.https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Algorithms_of_Oppression/-ThDDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Procrit seemed like a biotech miracle, promising a golden age in medical care. Developed in the 1980s by Amgen and licensed to the pharmaceutical giant, Johnson & Johnson, the drug (AKA Epogen and Aranesp) soon generated billions in annual revenue—and still does. In 2012, world famous cyclist, Olympian, and Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong was banned from professional cycling on doping charges for using EPO (the blanket name for the drugs Procrit and Epogen), resulting in a global controversy about abuse, big pharmaceutical companies, and the lies and inaccuracies concerning performance-enhancing drugs.

Mark Duxbury was a J&J salesman who once believed in the blood-booster, setting record sales and winning company awards. Then Duxbury started to learn unsavory truths about Procrit and J&J’s business practices. He was fired and filed a whistleblower suit to warn the public.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Blood_Medicine/7k9Yi379W24C?hl=en&gbpv=0

This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals, supported by the best available evidence and illustrated through real-life cases. Recognising the increasing stressors in the role including the impact of the environment in which doctors work, the book examines some of the key emotional drivers for this unhappiness among doctors at work – shame, stigma, suffering and sacrifice – and offers practical steps to emotional and physical recovery.

Despite the obvious challenges and stresses of the role, with the right support in place the vast majority of doctors can thrive in their jobs. In reading this book, policy makers, politicians, educators, hospital managers will be reminded of the ethical duty to ensure that doctors are cared for and have access to the time, people and spaces to remain psychological healthy, while doctors will learn to recognize and seek actively the help that they need, and to support and guide one another.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Beneath_the_White_Coat/zhUHEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

This book offers a radically different perspective on the topic of health inequity. Carey, Tai, and Griffiths use Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) to deconstruct current approaches to understanding, investigating, and addressing problems of health inequity. In the book, the authors propose that health inequity is not a problem per se. Disrupted control, they argue, is the problem that needs to be addressed.

From this perspective, research, policy, and health practices directed at addressing health inequity in isolation will offer only partial solutions to the problems created by disrupted control. Addressing problems of disrupted control directly, however, has the potential to entirely resolve issues that are created by health inequity.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Deconstructing_Health_Inequity/py0ezgEACAAJ?hl=en

Employee sustainability and well-being have been increasingly important discussions in today’s business world. Businesses may have difficulty implementing a successful long-term policy due to a lack of knowledge, limited resources, and a short-term focus; however, the effects have shown a potential strategic and growth advantage. Promoting employee sustainability is an important step towards greater competitive advantage, creation of added value to the business, and a greater identity among society and within the organization itself. Developing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies for Promoting Employee Sustainability and Well-Being analyzes the current state of employee sustainability policies, systematizes the factors that promote a more sustainable and healthier workplace, explores the implications of diversity and inclusion practices on the well-being of employees, and collects policy options aimed at finding solutions to enhance well-being. Covering topics such as emotional health, organizational behavior, and work satisfaction, this reference work is ideal for academicians, researchers, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, business owners, managers, government officials, instructors, and students.

google.ca/books/edition/Developing_Diversity_Equity_and_Inclusio/VUjfzgEACAAJ?hl=en

This book reveals the roots of structural racism that limit social mobility and equality within Britain for Black and ethnicised students and academics in its inherently white Higher Education institutions. It brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of Race and Education to explore what institutional racism in British Higher Education looks like in colour-blind ‘post-race’ times, when racism is deemed to be ‘off the political agenda’. Keeping pace with our rapidly changing global universities, this edited collection asks difficult and challenging questions, including why black academics leave the system; why the curriculum is still white; how elite universities reproduce race privilege; and how Black, Muslim and Gypsy traveller students are disadvantaged and excluded.

google.ca/books/edition/Dismantling_Race_in_Higher_Education/L3VsDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=differential+attainment+medicine&pg=PA95&printsec=frontcover

The essays in this book demonstrate the need to identify and debate alternative positions on the choice of measures of health inequality; the definitions of ‘inequality’ and ‘inequity’ in health, and their interrelationship; the ethical basis for attaching priority to narrowing gaps in longevity and health among individuals, groups, and societies; and the possible solutions to a series of puzzles involving uncertainty and variable population size. The authors of these essays are philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and physicians contributing to our understanding of ethical issues in population health. Their contributions will be of interest to anyone interested in inequalities in health, including specialists in health policy, public health, epidemiology, moral philosophy, demography, and health economics.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Inequalities_in_Health/kaozAAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Currently, there are several divergent and convergent understandings of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as the term continues to evolve and expand. A number of scholars, practitioners, and international bodies have attempted to define the concept, theoretical underpinnings, dimensions, and sources of DEI as well as its advantages and disadvantages in organizations and workplaces. However, further study is necessary to accurately define the concept of DEI in order to appropriately develop and implement inclusive policies in today’s business world. Mainstreaming Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as Future Workplace Ethics enhances the historical origin of DEI, considers existing definitions and theories of DEI from a multidisciplinary lens, and provides insightful and valuable materials that are focused on DEI to aid the application of these concepts in theory and practice. Covering topics such as economic growth and policy development, this reference work is ideal for policymakers, ethicists, human resource specialists, business owners, executives, managers, industry professionals, academicians, researchers, instructors, and students.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Mainstreaming_Diversity_Equity_and_Inclu/N2V2EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

There is a huge need for supportive mentoring among students, doctors in training and general practitioners. Mentoring is an effective way of supporting doctors and preventing problems. The author argues that all doctors should seek a mentor. Medical training involves transitions; school to university, student to junior doctor and trainee to GP. It is at these transition points that mentoring is most valuable. This book – Medical Mentoring – is a practical guide to using mentoring to help doctors with their professional development, support them when difficulties arise and prevent problems developing. If you’re considering mentoring, want to adapt your approach or develop your mentoring skills, this is the book for you.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Medical_Mentoring/NEivBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Peer Support in Medicine is an excellent resource for all clinicians seeking to improve healthcare outcomes using the gains made by the peer support model, including psychiatrists, psychologists, healthcare researchers, and medical students across specialties, nurses, social workers, and all others.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Peer_Support_in_Medicine/X9IhEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

In recent years, the concepts of peer support, self-help and self-management have moved from the periphery of mental health care toward the centre, and have fast become mainstream approaches to supporting well-being. Peer Support in Mental Health provides an overview of the core concepts and an appreciation of the complexities, controversies and applications of each concept. This innovative textbook will support not only mental health professionals and trainees, but also peers, people who use services and their carers.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Peer_Support_in_Mental_Health/B_JGEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

With CMH and CSDH having adopted different but perhaps complementary standpoints, it soon became clear that greater synergies had to be forged between the two. This WHO resource book on the economics of social determinants of health and health inequalities seeks to begin to build a bridge between the two approaches by explaining, illustrating and discussing the economic arguments that could (and could not) be put forth to support the case for investing in the social determinants of health on average and in the reduction in socially determined health inequalities.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Economics_of_Social_Determinants_of/1LMXDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Mentorship is a catalyst capable of unleashing one’s potential for discovery, curiosity, and participation in STEMM and subsequently improving the training environment in which that STEMM potential is fostered. Mentoring relationships provide developmental spaces in which students’ STEMM skills are honed and pathways into STEMM fields can be discovered. Because mentorship can be so influential in shaping the future STEMM workforce, its occurrence should not be left to chance or idiosyncratic implementation. There is a gap between what we know about effective mentoring and how it is practiced in higher education.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Science_of_Effective_Mentorship_in_S/vbnHDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Medical Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations

“Two of the most important yet often overlooked aspects of a medical device are its usability and accessibility. This is important not only for health care providers, but also for older patients and users with disabilities or activity limitations. Medical Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations focuses on how lack of usability and accessibility pose problems for designers and users of medical devices, and how to overcome these limitations.”

Medical Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations. (2006). United States: CRC Press. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Medical_Instrumentation/_APOBQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Accessibility and Active Offer: Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities

“It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help future professionals understand the workplace issues of accessibility and active offer of minority-language services.”

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Accessibility_and_Active_Offer/8Z1BDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Seeing Patients: A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias, With a New Preface
“In this blend of memoir and manifesto, Dr. White draws on his experience as a resident at Stanford Medical School, a combat surgeon in Vietnam, and head orthopedic surgeon at one of Harvard’s top teaching hospitals to make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical care, and to explore how we can do better in a diverse twenty-first-century America.”

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
“The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Patients’ and providers’ attitudes, expectations, and behavior are analyzed. Unequal Treatment offers recommendations for improvements in medical care financing, allocation of care, availability of language translation, community-based care, and other arenas. The book concludes with recommendations for data collection and research initiatives. Unequal Treatment will be vitally important to health care policymakers, administrators, providers, educators, and students as well as advocates for people of color.”

Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada by Shaheen Hussain
“Exposes the medical establishment’s role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of the pervasive, systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system – and in settler society at large.”

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by J. Downs:

“A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge, especially when it comes to the science of infectious disease”

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation
America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads

“In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving national goals, we must invest in research, encourage innovation, and grow a strong and talented science and technology workforce. Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation explores the role of diversity in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce and its value in keeping America innovative and competitive. According to the book, the U.S. labor market is projected to grow faster in science and engineering than in any other sector in the coming years, making minority participation in STEM education at all levels a national priority.”

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Expanding_Underrepresented_Minority_Part/KrrBXyYsohsC?hl=en&gbpv=0

or

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12984/expanding-underrepresented-minority-participation-americas-science-and-technology-talent-at

An American Crisis
The Growing Absence of Black Men in Medicine and Science: Proceedings of a Joint Workshop

“Black men are increasingly underrepresented in medical schools and in the medical profession. A diverse workforce is a key attribute of quality healthcare and research suggests that a diverse workforce may help to advance cultural competency and increase access to high-quality health care, especially for underserved populations. Conversely, lack of diversity in the health workforce threatens health care quality and access and contributes to health disparities. In this way, the growing absence of Black men in medicine is especially troubling, because their absence in medicine may have adverse consequences for health care access, quality, and outcomes among Black Americans and Americans overall.”

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/An_American_Crisis/xSZnDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

or

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/25130/chapter/1

Privilege and Policy: A History of Community Clinics in Saskatchewan

“The introduction of medicare in Saskatchewan marks a dividing point in the history of the province and Canada. The battle to establish medicare was hard fought and in the front lines were community clinics, non-profit, consumer-controlled health co-operatives offering interdisciplinary primary care. Here is his story of how the medicare battle was fought by those who not only wanted to eliminate money as a barrier to care but also wanted to change the way health care was delivered. This is the inside story of a more radical vision of medicare, one that has still not been achieved in Canada.”

Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States Since 1930

“This book shows that the haphazard way the U.S. system allocates medical services, using income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many other factors, is a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of rationing. Unlike rationing in most countries, which is intended to keep costs down, rationing in the United States has actually led to increased costs, resulting in the most expensive health care system in the world. While most histories of U.S. health care emphasize failed policy reforms, this book looks at the system from the ground up in order to examine how rationing is experienced by ordinary Americans, from soldiers’ pregnant wives to survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and consequently reveals how experiences of rationing have led to claims for a right to health care.”

Privilege in the Medical Academy: A Feminist Examines Gender, Race, and Power

“By approaching the training of our physicians from the enlightening perspective of medical humanities, Delese Wear shows us how the Western paradigm of “scientific objectivity” reinforces cultural biases based on gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. But when wise teachers use literature and art to decode the silences and scripts of traditional medical education, our doctors (who record and tell our stories to one another in our medical records) can learn to bring into their practices the healing values of imagination, empathy, and social justice.”

Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. (2017). United States: National Academies Press. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Communities_in_Action/AIKPDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Inclusive communication that respects and includes all communities is free from sexist, racist and other discriminatory language. It does not inadvertently exclude groups and it avoids stereotypes, loaded words and patronizing descriptors.

https://www.uvic.ca/brand/story/style/inclusivity/index.php

Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives, as is implied by its name, explores worship (i.e., Prayer, Praise, Scripture, Sacrament, Rituals, Confessions, Eucharist, Rites, Pilgrimages, Reflection, Contemplation, etc.) on the Internet. It is not an “everything you need to know” guide about the subjects of faith and belief, religions-online, religions on the Net, or religions in cyberspace. Rather, it is a book about religious and spiritual experience under the rubric, cyber worship, which is the variety of ways religious devotion is performed and carried out on the Internet. The term ‘Cyber Worship’ is a catchall phrase, which includes variants such as online worship, virtual worship, electronic prayer, cyber puja, cyber synagogue, and so on. Dr. Mohamed Taher has thus assembled a quick reference for two groups: those communities that are involved in Cyber Worship and business Webs that collaborate in sustaining wired environments. As such, this book provides an interesting and current perspective on a practice that will continue to grow in the future.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Cyber_Worship_in_Multifaith_Perspectives/suX5GLhZtZMC?hl=en&gbpv=0

This book is a comprehensive guidebook of therapeutic de-escalation techniques for nurses and other healthcare professionals to improve safety in healthcare facilities. Readers will explore the concepts of aggression (including risk factors), de-escalation, and therapeutic communication. They will also learn how to perform mental status assessments, manage and even prevent aggressive behavior, and practice conflict resolution, and–when faced with individuals with depressive disorders, suicidal ideation, and/or self-injurious behavior (SIB)–engage in crisis intervention

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/De_Escalating_Violence_in_Healthcare/0VVkxgEACAAJ?hl=en

Mentorship is a protected relationship in which a more knowledgeable or experienced person guides and nurtures the professional development or growth of another, outside the normal manager/subordinate line management. Its focus goes beyond learning specific competencies or tasks and builds a climate of trust so the mentee can feel secure to seek advice on issues impacting their professional success.

Mentorship achieves its goals primarily by listening with empathy, sharing experiences, developing insight through reflection, and encouraging the mentee to take action towards the achievement of self-driven goals. As such the relationship is mentee-driven, with a clear definition of goals and expectations that are mutually agreed with the mentor. It is attentive to the mentee’s values and needs and respectful of the mentor’s time, resources, and experience.

https://cs.lbl.gov/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/csa-mentoring-program/what-is-mentorship/

a personal development relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. The mentor may be older or younger but have a certain area of expertise. It is a learning and development partnership between someone with vast experience and someone who wants to learn.

https://www.cwu.edu/mentoring/what-does-mentoring-mean-anyway

Peer support is emotional and practical support between two people who share a common experience, such as a mental health challenge or illness. A Peer Supporter has lived through that similar experience, and is trained to support others.

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Peer support workers are people who have been successful in the recovery process who help others experiencing similar situations. Through shared understanding, respect, and mutual empowerment, peer support workers help people become and stay engaged in the recovery process and reduce the likelihood of relapse. Peer support services can effectively extend the reach of treatment beyond the clinical setting into the everyday environment of those seeking a successful, sustained recovery process.

https://www.samhsa.gov/brss-tacs/recovery-support-tools/peers

“peer support” refers to a process
through which people who share common experiences
or face similar challenges come together as equals to
give and receive help based on the knowledge that
comes through shared experience

https://www.ahpnet.com/AHPNet/media/AHPNetMediaLibrary/White%20Papers/DPenney_Defining_peer_support_2018_Final.pdf

Also known as D&I Policy or DEI Policy, a workplace policy that requires everyone at the company to lead every situation, interaction, and decision with equity, diversity, and inclusion at the forefront.

https://www.humi.ca/glossary/equity-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-policy?visitor_id=

“At the heart of implementing an EDI policy is developing an organizational understanding of your employee population and identifying any barriers to equity, diversity and inclusion that may exist. Tackling these issues is about fostering a more inclusive work environment, which in turn can reduce incidents of harassment, violence and discrimination that may result in costly litigation.

The presence or absence of an EDI policy in an organization can also be an important signal to prospective employees. Simply put, if an employer has one, it can indicate to a potential candidate that the company takes EDI seriously. Conversely, not having an EDI policy can be equally telling. But please do not make an EDI policy a performative virtue signal. An EDI policy with meaning, intention, and follow-through, is a cornerstone of your organization’s commitment to seriously advancing EDI.

https://seabrookworkplacelaw.ca/implementing-an-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-policy/”

despite being selected for high academic achievement, medical students from ethnic minority groups end up performing worse on average than their white counterparts during education and training. This phenomenon is called “differential attainment.”

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m339

Differential attainment (DA) is what we call the gap between attainment levels of different groups of doctors. It occurs across many professions.
It exists in both undergraduate and postgraduate contexts, across exam pass rates, recruitment and Annual Review of Competence Progression outcomes and can be an indicator that training and medical education may not be fair.
Differentials that exist because of ability are expected and appropriate. Differentials connected solely to age, gender or ethnicity of a particular group are unfair. Our standards require training pathways to be fair for everyone.

https://www.gmc-uk.org/education/standards-guidance-and-curricula/projects/differential-attainment

For more than 5,000 years, “old” has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we’ve made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied.

Aronson, L. (2019). Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. United States: Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Elderhood/8ZmSDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

A hospital is no place for a fair fight:
“Angry and resolute, this ad for UChicago Medicine shows both survivors who fight diseases in their own body and the doctors who fight for others.”

Dear White Parents, talk to your kids:

“In a moving PSA, Dear White Parents shows white parents having uncomfortable discussions with their children, understanding that their child’s own discomfort or sadness cannot be put above the safety of other people who are at risk of bigotry. There’s a lot of emotional work done by white people to unpack white privilege, and the ability to show the moment where white people experience an understanding of the racial divide in America without putting the burden on People of Color to show sympathy or share their own experiences is deeply important to helping raise an anti-racist generation.”

Cybercash: Stared At:

“The advert lampoons the typical social campaign model that exploits sentiment for effect. In this manner, the advert presents the prejudices rich people suffer from. The sequence shows the alienation suffered by society’s affluent minority. They are always stared at causing them to lead reclusive lives.”

Bard or bias?
“Quiet Storm’s Create Not Hate initiative launches two films by young under-represented Londoners that challenge racial stereotyping. It’s the pay-off to the story of Heated Conversation, directed by Quiet Storm founder Trevor Robinson, which cleverly reveals the bias of a very beige couple making very wrong assumptions about the young Black males’ activities.”

The Look by Saturday Morning and Anthony Mandler 

“This is a hard-hitting spot targeting racial bias against black men. It follows an African American man going about his daily life, only to be confronted at every turn – from taking his child swimming to running for a packed lift – with casual (and not so casual) racism, which manifests itself in ‘the look’ of the ad’s title. The extent of the problem comes into razor-sharp focus in the final courtroom scene, when the viewer’s own prejudice is exposed by a clever plot twist. Powerful stuff.”

All The Little Things by BADLANDS

“This new short film from director Meena Ayittey takes a closer look at the toll taken on one man after a series of race-related micro-aggressions.

Based on the real experiences of people of colour (PoC) working in the advertising and creative industry, the film is the first piece of work created as part of the studio’s RAW initiative (Racism at Work), which is volunteer-led and aims to promote openness about race and mental wellness through storytelling.”

The Look by Saturday Morning and Anthony Mandler 

“This is a hard-hitting spot targeting racial bias against black men. It follows an African American man going about his daily life, only to be confronted at every turn – from taking his child swimming to running for a packed lift – with casual (and not so casual) racism, which manifests itself in ‘the look’ of the ad’s title. The extent of the problem comes into razor-sharp focus in the final courtroom scene, when the viewer’s own prejudice is exposed by a clever plot twist. Powerful stuff.”

With clear-eyed wisdom and empathy, Dr. Sarkis not only helps you determine if you are being victimized by a gaslighter — she gives you the tools to break free and heal.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Gaslighting/5JdKDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Health inequity refers to health inequalities that are unfair or unjust and modifiable. For example, Canadians who live in remote or northern regions do not have the same access to nutritious foods such as fruits and vegetables as other Canadians.
Health equity is the absence of unfair systems and policies that cause health inequalities. Health equity seeks to reduce inequalities and to increase access to opportunities and conditions conducive to health for all.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/health-promotion/population-health/what-determines-health.html

differences in health status or in the distribution of health resources between different population groups, arising from the social conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. Health inequities are unfair and could be reduced by the right mix of government policies.

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes#:~:text=Health%20inequities%20are%20differences%20in,right%20mix%20of%20government%20policies.

Special Healthcare Provider Edition of the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service Compliance Kit

https://accessibilityconsultants.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/DRAFT_Healthcare_Compliance_Kit_FINAL_RG20111122.pdf

E-Learning Modules: Timely Access to Primary Care

“Every day, primary care providers are faced with the challenge of balancing supply and demand to meet their patients’ needs. Busy waiting rooms and stressful workplaces are common – but they don’t have to be.

As part of our ongoing commitment to improving health quality across the province, Health Quality Ontario is offering these e-learning module to help your primary care practice see patients on the day they call in or on a day of their choosing.”

https://www.hqontario.ca/Quality-Improvement/E-Learning-and-Events/E-Learning-Modules-Timely-Access-to-Primary-Care

Equipping for Equity Modules

“Have you been trying to provide good care but it just seems like there are a million barriers? Do you want to provide better care to people who seem hardest to serve? Do you want to be more satisfied in your work? Do you want to have a bigger impact?
If you’re a health care or social service provider, staff member or leader in a health care organization, these modules are for you.”

https://equiphealthcare.ca/equipping-for-equity-online-modules/

Access for all; why digital design for your whole market matters

“Accessibility in design isn’t just about the visually impaired, says Chris Perowne, Head of Design at INITIALS, and while that’s still important, there are many other considerations to take into account if you want to make your brand an open door for everyone.”

https://www.shots.net/news/view/access-for-all-why-digital-design-for-your-whole-market-matters

How to create accessible documents

“When authoring documents using Microsoft Office or Google Apps, there are a few simple principles that are relevant for almost all document types. These principles are meant to improve the readability and accessibility of your documents for individuals with disabilities.”

https://www.torontomu.ca/accessibility/guides-resources/accessible-documents/

Project VisualDx:
“NEJM Group is collaborating with the Skin of Color Society (SOCS) and VisualDx to highlight information gaps and knowledge resource solutions designed to improve diagnosis and care for patients of color.”

When a Patient Encounter Turns into an Interrogation: Implicit Bias in Action (Blog):

Examines how implicit bias in patient encounters impacts the healthcare provider as well.

Power and Privilege Module: This is a module on “colonization, whiteness, power and privilege. All these concepts are interrelated when it comes to understanding the past and current state of Indigenous peoples in Saskatchewan, and in Canada.”

Decolonizing Education Certificate: “brought to you by the Centre for Indigegogy and is for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who want to develop their capacity to understand Indigenous perspectives in the history of colonization to contemporary realities in Canada.”

Project READY (Reimagining Equity & Access for Diverse Youth): A free online professional development curriculum on Indigeneity and Colonialism.

The Star Article: “A history of Canada’s medical colonialism against Indigenous people and why it needs to be recognized as genocide: doctors”

Module: “designed to introduce you to some complex issues surrounding the concepts and theoretical frameworks of identities, power, and privilege.“

https://canvas.ubc.ca/courses/31444/pages/1-introduction-to-power-privilege-and-bias?module_item_id=1531926

Informational Guide: The High Cost of Power Problems in the Workplace

https://diamondleadership.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DiamondLeadership_WhitePaper_PowerProblemsinWorkplace_Final.pdf

Race and Medicine: An organized activity for white providers with the aim of understanding Privilege.

Recognizing Your Privilege: “Suitable for all individuals, this course will show your teams why being an ally for others can truly make a difference”

Hamilton’s Social Landscape Bulletin: Census Quick Facts- Visible Minorities in Hamilton

https://www.sprc.hamilton.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Hamiltons-Social-Landscape-Bulletin-Census-Quick-Facts-Visible-Minorities-in-Hamilton-1.pdf

Hamilton & Area Resources for Racialized Communities

https://cmhahamilton.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Hamilton-and-Area-Resources.pdf

Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion

“A charitable organization driven by a mission to mobilize all Hamiltonians to create an inclusive and welcoming city. Founded in 2006, HCCI has undertaken an extensive number of initiatives that have made a measurable impact of the vision of building a united community that respects diversity, practices equity, and speaks out against discrimination. To achieve this, the organization engages with partners and supporters and works hard to be both proactive and responsive as society evolves and new challenges emerge.”

Current Programs: Hamilton Civic Leadership Program, Black Youth Mentorship Program, EDI Training, Anti-Racism Conference.

Hamilton Community Legal Clinic

“In its 2017 Strategic Plan HCLC committed to achieving inclusive justice for all communities in Hamilton. We are doing this through advancing the organization’s decolonization, advocating for marginalized communities, recognizing particular struggles of intersectional oppression and building strong relationships with advocacy groups, institutions and partners. We have embarked on a journey to develop and implement a robust Anti-Racism Anti-Oppression (ARAO) Plan.”

Hamilton Family Health Team

The HFHT is a healthcare team with the mission of being free of bias. Primarily for patients, but also, aims to allow for fellow healthcare providers to connect and employ and promote some of their methods or teachings.

“Many of our colleagues are committed to increasing their knowledge of the histories supporting systemic racism and to do the personal work of exploring their own privilege, biases and complicit behaviour.”

As witnessed through the firsthand experiences of a frontline activist and international medical aid practitioner, this biosocial political study gives voice to the inequities in undocumented Mexican and Zimbabwean women’s emergency healthcare access and treatment in Houston, United States of America, and Johannesburg, South Africa. As a construct of feminist transdisciplinary fieldwork, this research utilizes methodological pluralism and biosocial disparities to examine constructs of “social determinants” or “social origins” of women’s suffering, disease, and healthcare access. These variables include gender inequity, xenophobia, structural violence, political economy subjugation, healthcare access and delivery disparities, and human rights violations.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Medical_Outcasts/UiBUCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

“A everyday, subtle put-downs that unconsciously or unintentionally expresses or reveals a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group, such as a racial minority. These small, common occurrences include insults, slights, stereotyping, undermining, devaluing, delegitimizing, overlooking or excluding someone. Over time, microaggressions can isolate and alienate those on the receiving end, and affect their health and wellbeing”

Source: Harvard (https://edib.harvard.edu/files/dib/files/dib_glossary.pdf)

This book engages the topic of xenophobia from both psychological and socio-political approaches. Recently, xenophobia as a social standpoint or social attitude has come under increased scrutiny by the public, scholars, and educators; however, few works have directly summarized current theories of xenophobia as well as articulated critical perspectives on the issue. This work provides an overview of the concept, historical factors related to its development, and a review of varied theoretical perspectives.

Yakushko, O. (2018). Modern-Day Xenophobia: Critical Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on the Roots of Anti-Immigrant Prejudice. Germany: Springer International Publishing.https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Modern_Day_Xenophobia/h7R6DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

As the global marketplace grows and becomes more complex, increasing stress is placed upon employees. Businesses are acknowledging this change in work habits by adapting the work place to offer support through multifaith chaplaincy. Multifaith chaplaincy is based on developing relationships of trust between diverse faith communities and the public workplace. Through the experience of starting the first multifaith chaplaincy in Canary Wharf, the author offers insights into current conditions and challenges of chaplaincy in the business community.

Writing as an Anglican priest, Fiona Stewart-Darling shows the importance of chaplaincy teams drawing on different faith traditions. This book is an important contribution to the emerging debate around the role of chaplaincy in faith and business communities. This research will be of particular interest to those working in or setting up chaplaincies in different contexts such as hospitals, prisons, town centre chaplaincies working with businesses and business leaders, particularly those involved in diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Multifaith_Chaplaincy_in_the_Workplace/EtrADQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

In multifaith space, different religious world views come together in a way that mirrors the multicultural life experience of people living in towns and cities across the world. These spaces can highlight complex and sensitive issues to do with political and social tensions around the emergence of increasingly densely urbanised populations. At the same time, they also hold out the possibility of encouraging or promoting neighbourliness, dialogue, hospitality and shared activity for the betterment of the community.

This book explores the history, development, design and practicalities of multifaith spaces. From early shared religious buildings that had to cater for the spiritual rituals of two or more faiths, to the shared multifaith spaces of modern secular locations such as universities, airports and hospitals, author Terry Biddington looks at the architectural, theological, social, legal and practical complexities that arise from the development and use of such spaces. The book also draws together research to enable further development of multifaith spaces.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Multifaith_Spaces/CHzSDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

McGibbon, E. (2021). Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition. United States: Fernwood Publishing.https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Oppression/sXsMzgEACAAJ?hl=en

Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion
“A charitable organization driven by a mission to mobilize all Hamiltonians to create an inclusive and welcoming city. Founded in 2006, HCCI has undertaken an extensive number of initiatives that have made a measurable impact of the vision of building a united community that respects diversity, practices equity, and speaks out against discrimination. To achieve this, the organization engages with partners and supporters and works hard to be both proactive and responsive as society evolves and new challenges emerge.”

Current Programs: Hamilton Civic Leadership Program, Black Youth Mentorship Program, EDI Training, Anti-Racism Conference.

Hamilton Community Legal Clinic
“In its 2017 Strategic Plan HCLC committed to achieving inclusive justice for all communities in Hamilton. We are doing this through advancing the organization’s decolonization, advocating for marginalized communities, recognizing particular struggles of intersectional oppression and building strong relationships with advocacy groups, institutions and partners. We have embarked on a journey to develop and implement a robust Anti-Racism Anti-Oppression (ARAO) Plan.”

Accessibility and inclusion in healthcare
Coda Change
“Nas Campanella is a high-profile public media identity whose experience of being a blind patient provides a first-hand account of the access and inclusion challenges she faced within the healthcare system. Facing early childhood memories which involved countless hospital visits, she remembers needles, cannulas and feeling incredibly anxious about going into the operating theatre. That was, until the day that she stopped and said, I’ll do this (surgery) if it is my last. The concept that a patient with a disability isn’t necessarily seeking a cure for a problem is often difficult to understand for healthcare professionals, who go into medicine to make people better. Understanding how to provide better care for this population is a crucial step towards achieving equitable accessibility and inclusion for patients with a disability.”

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2T0BAelDPWXAe85o2suXKH

Improving healthcare accessibility and delivery for improved women’s health
Talking HealthTech
“In this episode, Pete and Emma discuss the accessibility of healthcare resources and expertise for women. They also look at the work going on to help improve healthcare for women around the country.

This episode is perfect for anyone with an interest in women’s health. We hear from a women’s health expert about how digital health is used in creating a community for women where they can access advice and educational content and have consultations with actual clinicians.”

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3hOGONeVXUiYUi2Nw1yqs1 

Radical Accessibility
TEDx Shorts
“Dr. SeriaShia Chatters champions and outlines a move to greater societal equity for those with disabilities through what she calls “radical accessibility”.”

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1y6hyF0s9dbOotaRFHpmhF

Unconscious Bias in Medicine | The Not so Model Minority Podcast
“With centuries of underrepresentation in medical research, it is not a surprise that our understanding of the human body is one that is very heavily white-male centric. This week, Jiaqi shares her experiences as a medical student on how these unconscious biases are formed due to the way medicine is taught and exacerbated by demographic stereotypes and the exclusion of women and racial minorities from medical research. She also explains how, paradoxically, these stereotypes can sometimes come in handy for diagnosis and how the introduction of AI in the healthcare industry can act as a double edge sword in reducing or further aggravating these biases.”

Addressing Implicit Bias and Microaggressions | Run the List

“They explore their definitions for implicit bias and microaggressions, the contexts in which they emerge in medicine, and their own perspectives experiencing and witnessing the harms of them in the hospital and in medical school. They also discuss frameworks for acknowledging and reducing implicit bias and microaggressions and end with key takeaways for listeners.”

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1t4Bf4XwKXj9Q4ke1oCFn8.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1t4Bf4XwKXj9Q4ke1oCFn8. 

Ask an OB/GYN- IUDs, Missing Tampons & Implicit Bias | Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

“Get ready to be blown away by this incredibly educating and empowering conversation surrounding women’s healthcare and the role racism plays in maternal health. Heather explains the impacts of implicit bias, tiers of care, weathering, and redlining on minority groups and how systemic and overt racism leads to chronic stress health issues, specifically in women of color.”

S1E30: What is the impact of racism and colonialism on healthcare? | LSHTM Viral

“Dr Hirsch walks us through some of the challenges faced by Black, Asian, and minority ethnic people during COVID-19, what the impact of racism within healthcare systems looks like, and how we can start facing the legacy of colonialism in global health.”

An Indigenous Nurse’s Perspective- Healthcare, Colonialism, and Allyship | The Grritty Nurse Podcast

“In this episode, Amie and Sara sit down to talk with Rachel Radyk, a registered practical nurse about her experiences in nursing school as an Indigenous student, her thoughts about allyship, colonialism, residential schools, missing and murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. We discuss as healthcare providers how we can have actionable calls to justice and accountability for Indigenous Peoples. The time is now to learn and understand what Indigenous heath & healthcare should look like.”

Decolonizing Science

“Decolonizing Science is a grassroots organization and podcast run entirely by a black scientist currently obtaining their PhD in the field of biological sciences. The goal is to bridge the gap between activism and science by educating underprivileged communities and everyday people. The topics Decolonizing Science seeks to shed light on are environmental racism, health disparities and discrimination in the medical and research fields. We need to deconstruct colonial ideologies that have dictated and defined our understanding of science and medicine.”

UnsCripted Medicine: Clinical Communication Pearls | Microagressions Part 1

Episode Description:
“Join us as we dive into the definition and origin of the term “microaggression”, describe how these develop in the workplace and the clinic, and identify the deleterious effects that these aggressions have on women and URM (e.g. exacerbating imposter syndrome). Dr. Kelly also describes the discrete, subtle forms that these aggressions take (micro-assaults, micro-insults, and micro-invalidations), and provides key insight and advice as to how victims can navigate these aggressions in effective and constructive ways.”

UnsCripted Medicine: Clinical Communication Pearls | Microagressions Part 2: Approaching Microaggressions as a Bystander

Episode Description:
“In our discussion, Dr. Kelly relays key points about the delicate and subtle approach to managing microaggressions directed to our patients or colleagues. These include recognizing microaggressions when they occur, considering how our own implicit biases may blind us or contribute to such aggressions, and maintaining a mindset of cultural humility whenever a patient or colleague feels harmed by the words or actions of another.

Dr. Kelly also shares her key tips on how to be a “good bystander” when faced with a microaggressions, including:
1. Recognize microaggressions when they occur
2. Realize our own implicit biases and how they play into such aggressions
3. Have a planning approach for handling these attacks on patients or colleagues
4. Have the courage and humility to ask patients or colleagues when they feel attacked
5. Know when to ask for help from your own team when facing microaggressions”

Run the List: Addressing Implicit Bias and Microaggressions

Episode Description:
“They explore their definitions for implicit bias and microaggressions, the contexts in which they emerge in medicine, and their own perspectives experiencing and witnessing the harms of them in the hospital and in medical school. They also discuss frameworks for acknowledging and reducing implicit bias and microaggressions and end with key takeaways for listeners”

The Black Doctors Podcast: Minority Tax Reform- Avoiding Overtaxing Minorities When We Need Them Most

“This week’s episode features another journal club. It covers the article that defines and discusses the “minority tax” that is levied so frequently towards minority academic clinicians. This minority tax leads to an increased work load, increased stress and decreased promotion rates. It likely contributes to a high attrition rate of minority physicians from academic medicine.
We hope you enjoy this Journal Club edition of Ethically Sourced. In the future, we will feature additional articles that are relevant to our mission. We hope that generating discussions on Clinical Medical Ethics and Culturally Competent Care will have a positive impact on the lives of disenfranchised patients.”

URM JAM: Counteracting the Minority Tax for URM Faculty

“In this episode of the URM JAM, our hosts address the minority and gratitude taxes for URM faculty, which can be defined as the disparity in responsibilities that affect minority faculty in the name of diversity and the obligation felt to future generations of students. They discuss the impact of these taxes on career choices, professional pursuits, and promotion for URM faculty. Our hosts share advice based on life experience and suggest ways for individuals and institutions to counteract the minority tax.”

The DEI Shift: The Minority Tax

“In this episode, we discuss the minority tax and the negative effects it can have on our wellbeing. Learning Objectives:
1. Define the concepts of minority tax and majority subsidy.
2. Identify ways minority tax can manifest during one’s career and contribute to long-term burnout.
3. Identify strategies allies can employ to alleviate the minority tax for underrepresented colleagues.
4. Identify the important role diversity in the workforce plays in alleviating minority tax.
5. Outline strategies that underrepresented minorities can use to balance multiple responsibilities and avoid the negative effects of minority tax.
6. Strategize ways to implement aspects of a “trauma” protocol model at their own institutions.”

Power Dynamics in Leadership
The Art of Coaching
“The messy reality of effective leadership is rarely discussed within pop-culture books, TED Talks or other educational outputs. This episode serves to bridge that gap by providing a primer into how we as leaders can better understand power dynamics and political maneuvers within organizations.
Power is fluid, and it is a part of life.”

4 Ways to re-define power at work to include women of colour
TED Talks Daily

“With many women of color considering exiting the workforce due to unfair conditions, it’s time to reshape systems in order to put an end to this massive loss of talent. Exposing the harmful repercussions of racist, toxic organizational cultures, soul coach Rha Goddess and corporate inclusion visionary Deepa Purushothaman share four pathways to reimagine work so women of color are centered as leaders. Instead of aspiring to a “seat at the table”, they urge us to remake the whole table — and stop fighting for “one broke-ass chair.””

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5nMx96o3G4czqeascoF7SY

Medicine’s Disability Blindspot: Vaccine Roll-out, Privilege, and Access | Medical Humanities Podcast

“An outlook at how disabled lives have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and, in particular, by the current vaccine roll-out. Alice Wong, a disabled activist, and Alyssa Burgart, an anesthesiologist and ethicist at Stanford University, tell Medical Humanities’ Editor-in-Chief, Brandy Schillace, how disabled lives have been overlooked in this crisis, as the very systems and designs of medicine cater to the able-bodied.”

Racism and Privilege in Medicine | FLEXcast- The Faculty Learning Exchange

“In this episode, we are talking about racism, privilege, and some of the reasons we don’t speak up when faced with bias and discrimination. We want to share our conversation, our experiences, and some things we’ve learned. We’re all learning…and we all need to start having conversations like this.”

The Privilege of Providing Primary Care | Antidotes, Stories in Medicine

“Primary care is one of the least glamorous areas of medicine a provider can go into prompting many doctors, physician assistants, & nurse practitioners to opt for specialties that come with higher salaries, greater recognition, & more esteem. However, primary care providers are often the first call & biggest advocate for their patients in the complex world of medicine resulting in long lasting relationships that can hardly be found elsewhere.

Warning: Please be advised sensitive subjects are discussed as always, but this episode contains a case about suicide which may be particularly troubling for some listeners.”

This progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform. It provides needed analysis of the larger causes behind the immediate causes of illness and epidemics, particularly injustice, systemic inequities, and the cumulative effect of compound disadvantages. This moral approach to collective and individual responsibilities—on the part of practitioners as well as the public—supports a sound blueprint for finding answers to longstanding global and local concerns. Readers are challenged to recognize the critical role of social determinants to their perception of health issues, controversies, and possibilities

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Public_Health_Ethics_and_the_Social_Dete/o2A-DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

A ‘safe space’ is both a precondition, and one of the effects, of efforts of inclusiveness and egalitarian access to education. By creating safe spaces for learning and unlearning, researchers and practitioners have been working to strengthen the purpose of schools and universities, where education and learning are intended for everyone, with the goal of increasing critical thinking and valuing difference.

Re-Conceptualizing Safe Spaces broadens the idea of a safe space that is traditionally discussed in feminist studies, to include gendered identities intersecting with class, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and ability within multiple aspects of education. This edited collection showcases work supporting access to education of persistently marginalized individuals, as well as efforts that help privileged groups understand their role in perpetuating the marginalization of others in educational spaces, by bringing into the popular discourse examples of the diverse and valuable work taking place.
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Re_Conceptualizing_Safe_Spaces/8VZHEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus.

Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, the disinvitation of speakers, demands to rename campus landmarks—debate over these issues began in lecture halls and on college quads but ended up on op-ed pages in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, on cable news, and on social media. Some of these critiques had merit, but others took a series of cheap shots at “crybullies” who needed to be coddled and protected from the real world. Few questioned the assumption that colleges must choose between free expression and diversity. In Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces, John Palfrey argues that the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can, and should, coexist on campus.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Safe_Spaces_Brave_Spaces/HIQ5DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

This is an easy-to-read introductory text exploring the social aspects of health, illness and healthcare. Key concepts are introduced carefully and there is a helpful glossary of key terms. Activities and discussion points enable students to pace their learning and illustrative case studies bring the text to life. In short, this is a gentle yet comprehensive introduction which will no doubt become popular with lecturers and students alike.

Larkin, M. (2011). Social Aspects of Health, Illness and Healthcare. United Kingdom: McGraw-Hill Education. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/EBOOK_Social_Aspects_Of_Health_Illness_A/oglFBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

The impact of social class and classism on mental health functioning crosses racial, ethnic, and social lines and significantly contributes to our overall well-being. Any attempt to understand individuals must include an understanding of how economic issues and class have contributed to their difficulties. In Social Class and Classism in the Helping Professions, author William Ming Liu presents theory and research on the impact of classism and social class on mental health. He provides an original framework the Social Class Worldview Model for exploring each person’s individual and subjective life experiences. These experiences form a perspective that is unique to the individual.

Liu, W. M. (2011). Social Class and Classism in the Helping Professions: Research, Theory, and Practice. United Kingdom: SAGE Publications. https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Social_Class_and_Classism_in_the_Helping/7OIzriTUSwEC?hl=en&gbpv=0

The publication outlines why they are important; how Canada is doing in addressing them; and what can be done to improve their quality. The purpose of the document is to provide promote greater awareness of the social determinants of health and the development and implementation of public policies that improve their quality.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Social_Determinants_of_Health/XFrBzQEACAAJ?hl=en

Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to “treat” gender identity today.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Trans_Medicine/pHwDEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

5 Pearls on Transgender Health: Gender Affirming Care Episode 1

Medical uncertainty has been with us for centuries and remains a recurrent problem for patients, doctors, and researchers alike. Yet uncertainty in health care is still poorly understood and ineffectively managed; it is generally feared and avoided rather than directly confronted. This
systemic disregard of uncertainty leads us to treat medical uncertainty as a pathological condition to be cured through the pursuit of knowledge, but often further medical knowledge begets further uncertainty in kind.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Uncertainty_in_Medicine/ZX0_EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

This is a practical guide that will support primary care members through the process of change towards PCT status and assist those with PCT status. The contributors present real solutions to the many unique issues faced in this new stage of NHS development. Endorsed by the National Association of Primary Care it is an authoritative guide for the present and for future development. All members of the new primary care organisations and those supporting them will find this handbook to be an enlightening and indispensable guide.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Violence_and_Aggression_in_the_Workplace/BEqMDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Royal Pharmaceutical Society: Very comprehensive and a lighter read appropriate for many audiences.

AAMC: Many great articles addressing several EDI topics including Microaggression.

University of Colorado: Definition, analogy, examples, and actions on how to address Microaggressions.