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Section 1: Organization-level health equity

1A Health equity is a human right 1B Health equity is an issue for immigrants and refugees 1C Equity is a high priority for boards 1D Equity is a high priority for funders 1E Equity is a high priority for communities 1F Equity as a human right
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Factors affecting individual wellness

Section 2: Staff-level health equity

2A Creating an equitable environment 2B Implementing antiracism and anti-oppression organizational strategies 2C Recognizing burnout and compassion fatigue and promoting self-care
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Self-care Compassion Fatigue Burnout and its effects Vicarious trauma Seeking Help How organizations can support staff How supervisors can support staff Workplace empowerment

Section 3:

3A Equity as a measure of service quality 3A Equity as a measure of service quality 3B Equitable services improve outcomes 3C Equitable services are more cost effective
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Section 4: Tools and resources

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Implicit bias

Implicit bias

“Bias” (also referred to as “implicit bias” and “unconscious bias”) refers to assumptions, beliefs, attitudes and stereotypes regarding different groups of people. These learned mental shortcuts affect how we perceive and respond to people (Haselton et al., 2005).

Bias can be based on various social identities, such as:

Biases are learned through the social context within families, cultures, religions, spiritualities, secularism, ideologies and society (Haselton et al., 2005).

Bias leads to stereotypes that are often conveyed through ordinary, subtle and unconscious processes. Even the most well-meaning and intentionally egalitarian person who holds a harmful stereotype of a social group will likely discriminate against someone from that group. They are “universal processes and all people are capable of them” (Williams, 2018; American Psychological Association [APA], n.d.).

Video: Effects of Bias

With Sharon Douglas (Principal Consultant, S.M.D. Consulting Inc.)

Bias often appears to be innocent, conversational pieces or statements but what's included in those biases are the assumptions and the perceptions that we have of one another and communities, and particularly when we speak about the Black community and the older Black population, or older adults, we wonder: "What does that mean for them?"I'm sure that at some point some of them may have heard the comment:"Oh, you are so articulate."But what does that mean? Where does that come from? Does that mean we're uneducated, we're not intelligent, we don't know the language?But these comments are, we believe, intended to be complementary but they are not.So the next time that you are in conversations with different communities, pause for a moment, breathe and reflect and check your assumptions before you begin to speak.