Unconscious Bias in Health Care

IOM Report: Unequal Treatment, 2002
Review of hundreds of empirical studies revealed three sources of health care inequities:
Health systems-level factors
Financing, structure of care; cultural and linguistic barriers
Patient-level factors
Patient preferences, refusal of treatment, poor adherence, biological differences
Inequities arising from the clinical encounter

Unconscious Bias in Health Care II

IOM Report: Unequal Treatment, 2002
IOM Report: Unequal Treatment, 2002
Review of hundreds of empirical studies revealed three sources of health care inequities:

Health systems-level factors
Financing, structure of care; cultural and linguistic barriers

Patient-level factors
Patient preferences, refusal of treatment, poor adherence, biological differences
Inequities arising from the clinical encounter

Unconscious Bias in Criminal Justice II

African Americans are 3 times more likely to be killed by police officers (Buehler, 2017)
Many studies have revealed the cognitive processes that may affect shooting decisions that police officers make, including:

• “racialized seeing” (Eberhardt et al., 2004)
• “shooter bias” (Correll, Hudson, Guillermo, & Ma, 2014)
  

Unconscious Bias in Preschool

Black children are 3.6 times more likely to be suspended from preschool than White children. (U.S. Department of Education, 2016)

Teachers spend more time focused on their Black students, expecting bad behavior (Gilliam, Maupin, Reyes, Accavitti, & Shic, 2016)