Examining Healthcare Accessibility- A Qualitative Review of Health Disparity, Medical Inequity, and Discrimination

Imanni Sheppard
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Imanni Sheppard: Assistant Professor, Medical Education Facilitator, Co-Director Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, Carle Illinois College of Medicine Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, Director of Medical Education and Social Scientific Research, The Medical Humanities and Health Disparities Institute, USA

Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 2024, vol. 55, issue 4, 47351-47358

Abstract: Contrary to the advent and normalization of complex medical technologies, health disparities, medical inequities, and healthcare-related discriminations have endured. This is due, in part, to the persistently increasing costs of health care and health care related services. It is also partially due to the general lack of access to quality health care amongst poor and minoritized peoples. These issues are exacerbated by the intermingling of micro and macro level aggressions, stigmas, and medical discourses that reinforce a framework of thanatopolitics (politics of death) and infra humanization-the belief that one’s own community is more human than someone else’s or that the outgroup is not human at all-within science and medicine [1].

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Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2024.55.008750

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