Author

Rachel R. Hardeman

Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health

carhe@umn.edu

@RRHDr

Articles

PNAS

Physician-patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns

Introduction Prior research has documented that sharing demographic characteristics increases a sense of understanding or empathy between two people. This in-group bias has been found to influence the decisions made by leadership teams, inspection enforcers, teachers, and judges to favor those with shared racial or gender traits (further exasperated by white racial power). Greenwood, Hardeman,…

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