Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Healthcare Across the Globe
From Knowledge to Practice
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2024
- Editors: Faisal Khosa, Jeffrey Ding, Sabeen Tiwana
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 2 5 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 2 5 2 - 0
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Request a sales quoteEquity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Healthcare Across the Globe: 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
Healthcare professionals in academia and community/private practice, Medical and health profession educators (e.g., deans, department chairs, residency program directors, clerkship directors, program coordinators), Leaders of healthcare organizations (e.g., board members, executives, and diversity initiative/committee leaders in charge of developing workforce diversification goals), Organizational leaders from non-health professions tasked with addressing issues of workforce diversity in their field(s), Students and trainees in the health professions (e.g., medical students, residents, and fellows) and prospective students in the process of selecting a healthcare field to enter, Appointment and promotions search committee members, Professional societies, organizations, and/or institutions which have declared addressing EDI as a key priority
1. Preface and Introduction
2. Medicine
3. Dentistry
4. Nursing
5. Pharmacy
6. Physiotherapy
7. Podiatry
8. Chiropractic Medicine
9. Dietetics
10. Optometry
11. Social Work
12. Epilogue
2. Medicine
3. Dentistry
4. Nursing
5. Pharmacy
6. Physiotherapy
7. Podiatry
8. Chiropractic Medicine
9. Dietetics
10. Optometry
11. Social Work
12. Epilogue
- No. of pages: 200
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443132513
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Faisal Khosa
Dr. Faisal Khosa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia. He is the Co-Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion of the Radiology Department at UBC, and the co-chair of the Leadership Working Group at the Vancouver Physician Staff Association. He is an expert on equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and his work has been recognized through prestigious awards in the USA, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and South Asia, including the May Cohen Equity, Diversity and Gender Award of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada and the Global Humanitarian Award from the American College of Radiology. Through his research, mentoring of minorities and hosting EDI training workshops aimed at reducing inequities he is creating an environment in which EDI is sought and celebrated.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, CanadaJD
Jeffrey Ding
Mr. Jeffrey Ding is a medical student at the University of British Columbia. He is an avid equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) researcher with specific focus on gender, racial, and ethnic disparities in medicine. He has published 19 peer-reviewed articles (PubMed), the majority of which are aimed at increasing awareness of workforce disparities and advocating for institutional action to combat systemic inequities. Mr. Ding has studied disparities within medical schools, medical specialties, professional societies, journal editorial boards, clinical trials, and Canadian health authorities. He has been an effective voice at mobilizing and inspiring meaningful change at the national level through delivering and leading EDI workshops including the Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership and Vancouver Physician Staff Association. At these workshops, he promoted actionable means to disassemble existing disparities and empowered attendees by supplying them with the necessary toolkits to maneuver through inequities and injustices.
Affiliations and expertise
University of British Columbia, CanadaST
Sabeen Tiwana
Dr. Sabeen Tiwana is the owner of a family dental practice in Vancouver, Dunbar Smiles, and a clinical instructor at the University of British Columbia. She has a keen interest in advocacy and mentoring of students from underrepresented groups, including minorities and refugees. She also conducts a course on bias and harassment in the workplace (PubMed). Dr. Tiwana has authored manuscripts on gender, racial, and ethnic disparities. Through her research, she has worked towards increasing awareness of workforce disparities and has advocated for institutional action to combat systemic inequities.
Affiliations and expertise
University of British Columbia, Canada