Health Equity: “Everyone deserves culturally competent care.” ft. Samantha Artiga, KFF

Presented under YouTube’s Health Equity Incubator (THE-IQ), a program to tackle health equity through information quality, this video series is produced by KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) with The Loveland Foundation, National Birth Equity Collaborative and Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Through the voices of the partner organizations, the videos elevate a conversation about health equity and build understanding about the factors that impact health and well-being.

KFF is an endowed, nonprofit organization filling the need for trusted, independent information on national health issues; no affiliation to Kaiser Permanente.

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Transcript:
So If we look at efforts to advance health equity, certainly that encompasses addressing some of the social and economic factors that influence health. It includes factors that influence whether or not people are able to access or gain entry into the healthcare system. But then there's also a set of factors to consider once people are within the healthcare system, regarding differences in the care they receive and treatment by providers. So in the healthcare system, we see that Black adults, for example, are more likely to report difficulty finding a doctor with shared background and experiences and someone that they feel they can trust. They're more likely to report certain negative healthcare experiences, such as not having a provider believe them, not getting prescribed pain medication that they thought they needed or a test procedure or treatment that they needed. So their differences in experiences, even after people enter the healthcare system. Increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce. To better represent our overall population is one action that can help to address some of these issues and increase access to culturally, competent care. But at the same time, it's important for all doctors to be able to provide culturally, competent care, which is gonna require increased training to address bias and discrimination, not only among the current healthcare workforce but among the next generation of healthcare workers, who may be in training today.