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Northwestern tackles racial inequalities in integrative healthcare The year 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic has exposed systemic bias in healthcare among communities and people of color. The social justice movements in the summer of 2020 drove meaningful conversations about the complex legacy of racism in the United States and how it continues to affect health outcomes for Black communities and other communities of color. Northwestern Health Sciences University (NWHSU) has just released a new policy report, ?Racial Inequities in Integrative Healthcare? which takes a closer look at racial disparities, specifically within chiropractic and other integrative healthcare disciplines, and presents several paths forward for the integrative care community.As healthcare providers, we still have much work to do to confront systemic racism.
Northwestern Health Sciences University, Minnesota, USA
?It is incumbent on us to make sure that our graduates understand the risks inherent in health care disparities and are actively working to diminish those healthcare disparities?, said Deborah Bushway, Ph.D., President and CEO of NWHSU. Recommendations for practitioners from the policy report include: ·Building trust between the profession and various communities of color and cultures ·Developing and advancing community driven chiropractic and other integrative healthcare programs ·Serving communities of color as humble, authentic allies ·Improving cultural competence by acknowledging structural and implicit racism in our professions ·Elevating chiropractic and other integrative healthcare professionals of color and revising policies and procedures containing implicit bias
Deborah Bushway, PhD, President NWHSU
·Increasing the chiropractic and other integrative healthcare workforce diversity by actively recruiting, retaining and mentoring students of color