EQUIP emergency: can interventions to reduce racism, discrimination and stigma in EDs improve outcomes?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite a publicly funded system, health care in Canada has been shown to be deeply inequitable, particularly toward Indigenous people. Based on research identifying key dimensions of equity-oriented health care as being cultural safety, harm reduction and trauma- and violence-informed care, an intervention to promote equity at the organizational level was tested in primary health care, refined and adapted, and tested in Emergency Departments (EDs).

Methods

In partnership with clinical, community and Indigenous leaders in three diverse EDs in one Canadian province, we supported direct care staff to tailor and implement the intervention. Intervention activities varied in type and intensity at each site. Survey data were collected pre- and post-intervention from eve

SUBMITTER: Varcoe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9436447 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature