Implicit Bias in Healthcare
Original Editor - Tarina van der Stockt
Top Contributors - Tarina van der Stockt, Jess Bell, Ewa Jaraczewska and Stacy Schiurring
Introduction[edit | edit source]
To be able to deliver impartial healthcare we need to be wary of any kind of negative evaluation towards people from a specific group or someone with particular characteristics.[1] Implicit biases are those attitudes and beliefs that we harbour about specific people or groups of people at an unconscious level.[2] Even though these biases are unconscious and we might not be aware of it they still influence our judgements, behaviours and decisions.[3]
Thus implicit bias refers to a potential disconnection between what someone explicitly believes and wants to do and the unseen influence of negative implicit associations on what they think and how they behave.[1]It also relates to stereotyping as implicit biases is one of the reasons people attribute particular characteristics and qualities to all individuals belonging to a specific group.[4]
“Implicit biases involve associations outside conscious awareness that lead to a negative evaluation of a person on the basis of irrelevant characteristics such as race or gender.” [1]
Implicit Bias in Healthcare[edit | edit source]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 FitzGerald C, Hurst S. Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review. BMC medical ethics. 2017 Dec;18(1):1-8.
- ↑ Bouley TM, Reinking AK. Implicit Bias: An Educator’s Guide to the Language of Microaggressions. Rowman & Littlefield; 2021 Nov 14.
- ↑ Implicit Bias. National Institutes of Health.
- ↑ Cherry K. How does implicit bias influence behavior. Explanations and Impacts of Unconscious bias. Updated March 2023. Verywell Mind.
