Mitigating implicit bias and promoting compassionate behavior in public health/healthcare professionals: Implications for treatment outcomes

Authors

Lon J. Van Winkle
Shane L. Rogers, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Marta J. Brooks
Bianca B. Calderon
Nicole Michels

Document Type

Editorial

Publication Title

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volume

14

Publisher

Frontiers Media S.A.

School

School of Arts and Humanities

Comments

Van Winkle, L. J., Rogers, S. L., Brooks, M. J., Calderon, B. B., & Michels, N. (2023). Mitigating implicit bias and promoting compassionate behavior in public health/healthcare professionals: Implications for treatment outcomes [Editorial]. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 14, article 1306297. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2023.1306297

Abstract

Partly because it is unconscious, managing implicit bias in public health/healthcare remains intractable. Hence, administrators, practitioners, and their students unknowingly discriminate against others especially including socioeconomically disadvantaged people in the US and elsewhere. . . .

DOI

10.3389/fphar.2023.1306297

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