Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Healthcare: 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.
Table of Contents
1. Equity, diversity, and inclusion in chiropractic: Aligning the profession to serve tomorrow’s diverse world 2. Navigating equity, diversity, and inclusion: Transforming the dental profession 3. Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the dietetics profession: Past, present, and ways forward 4. Equity, diversity, and inclusion in medicine: Sisyphean undertaking or achievable reality 5. Equity, diversity, and inclusion: Current issues and recommendations to achieve EDI-related outcomes in the nursing discipline 6. Equity, diversity, and inclusion in occupational therapy: Small steps, slow pace, and unrealized potential 7. Seeing clearly: Equity, diversity, and inclusion in optometry 8. Equity, diversity, and inclusion in pharmacy: Paramount to progress and public trust in the profession 9. Moving in complex spaces: A call to action for equity, diversity, and inclusion in physiotherapy 10. Voices unheard: A clarion call for transforming communication sciences and disorders Conclusion: The road ahead
Authors
Faisal Khosa Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Canada.Dr. Khosa is an author, educator, and mentor who strives to attain inclusive and equitable societies that address the overlapping dimensions of discrimination and oppression. His research and advocacy have resulted in tangible improvements and increased access for minorities in educational institutions and employment. The more important yet intangible benefits of this work include the provision of culturally competent care through increasing diversity in the healthcare workforce.
Jeffrey Ding University of British Columbia, Canada.Dr. Ding is a resident physician in the Department of Family Medicine, University of British Columbia. Jeffrey is an avid EDI researcher with a specific focus on gender, racial, and ethnic disparities in medicine. Jeffrey has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles, with a focus on increasing awareness of workforce disparities and advocating for institutional action within medical schools, medical specialties, professional societies, journal editorial boards, clinical trials, and Canadian health authorities.
Sabeen Tiwana University of British Columbia, Canada.Dr. Tiwana is the owner of a family dental practice in Vancouver and a clinical instructor at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia. Sabeen has a keen interest in advocacy and mentoring of students from underrepresented groups, including minorities and refugees. Sabeen is a workplace advisor for several schools, has published extensively on demographic disparities in healthcare professions, and offers courses on bias and harassment.
