EQUIP Emergency: study protocol for an organizational intervention to promote equity in health care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social inequities are widening globally, contributing to growing health and health care inequities. Health inequities are unjust differences in health and well-being between and within groups of people caused by socially structured, and thus avoidable, marginalizing conditions such as poverty and systemic racism. In Canada, such conditions disproportionately affect Indigenous persons, racialized newcomers, those with mental health and substance use issues, and those experiencing interpersonal violence. Despite calls to enhance equity in health care to contribute to improving population health, few studies examine how to achieve equity at the point of care, and the impacts of doing so. Many people facing marginalizing conditions experience inadequate and inequitable treat

SUBMITTER: Varcoe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6785893 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature