Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Healthcare

From Knowledge to Practice

Faisal Khosa, Jeffrey Ding, Sabeen Tiwana

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443132520
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Healthcare: From Knowledge to Practice offers a comprehensive text on the landscape of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the health professions. Each chapter is dedicated to a health profession and is authored by an expert in EDI and workforce diversity in their respective discipline (such as medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and so on). Chapters characterize the present state of workforce diversity in the discipline, chronicle historical developments, provide rationale for systemic action, and include possible solutions and interventions in an evidence-based manner.By serving as an all-in-one reference text, this resource is meant for students, healthcare professionals, and organizational leadership who wish to understand and implement EDI in the health professions. - Presents a characterization of the present state of workforce diversity - Provides a review of the longitudinal trends in EDI developments (e.g., improvement, decline, or stagnation of minority group representation) - Introduces a rationale for systemic action, accompanied by solutions, interventions, and possible programs/initiatives to tackle disparities

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Endorsements
• Contributors
• Editors’ biographies
• Land acknowledgment
• Introduction: Fostering an age of equity, diversity, and inclusion—A primer from the editors
• Chapter 1 Equity, diversity, and inclusion in chiropractic: Aligning the profession to serve tomorrow’s diverse world
• Chapter 2 Navigating equity, diversity, and inclusion: Transforming the dental profession
• Chapter 3 Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the dietetics profession: Past, present, and ways forward
• Chapter 4 Equity, diversity, and inclusion in medicine: Sisyphean undertaking or achievable reality
• Chapter 5 Equity, diversity, and inclusion: Current issues and recommendations to achieve EDI-related outcomes in the nursing discipline
• Chapter 6 Equity, diversity, and inclusion in occupational therapy: Small steps, slow pace, and unrealized potential
• Chapter 7 Seeing clearly: Equity, diversity, and inclusion in optometry
• Chapter 8 Equity, diversity, and inclusion in pharmacy: Paramount to progress and public trust in the profession
• Chapter 9 Moving in complex spaces: A call to action for equity, diversity, and inclusion in physiotherapy
• Chapter 10 Voices unheard: A clarion call for transforming communication sciences and disorders
• Conclusion: The road ahead
• Index