Systemic racism: Pharmacists’ role and responsibility

Systemic racism is a public health emergency and disproportionately impacts communities of color, specifically black Americans. Pharmacists took an oath to protect the welfare of humanity and protect our patients. As such, to practice truly patient-centered care, pharmacists must recognize racism as...

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Autores principales: Arya, Vibhuti, Butler, Lakesha, Leal, Sandra, Maine, Lucinda, Alvarez, Nancy, Jackson, Natasha, Varkey, Alex C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Science and Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7535805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33032946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2020.09.003
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author Arya, Vibhuti
Butler, Lakesha
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Maine, Lucinda
Alvarez, Nancy
Jackson, Natasha
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description Systemic racism is a public health emergency and disproportionately impacts communities of color, specifically black Americans. Pharmacists took an oath to protect the welfare of humanity and protect our patients. As such, to practice truly patient-centered care, pharmacists must recognize racism as a root cause of social determinants of health and use their privilege to educate themselves and their colleagues around dismantling structural racism.
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spelling pubmed-75358052020-10-06 Systemic racism: Pharmacists’ role and responsibility Arya, Vibhuti Butler, Lakesha Leal, Sandra Maine, Lucinda Alvarez, Nancy Jackson, Natasha Varkey, Alex C. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003) Science and Practice Systemic racism is a public health emergency and disproportionately impacts communities of color, specifically black Americans. Pharmacists took an oath to protect the welfare of humanity and protect our patients. As such, to practice truly patient-centered care, pharmacists must recognize racism as a root cause of social determinants of health and use their privilege to educate themselves and their colleagues around dismantling structural racism. Elsevier 2020 2020-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7535805/ /pubmed/33032946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2020.09.003 Text en Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the American Pharmacists Association. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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