NUR 415: Sociocultural Issues in Health and Health Care: Health Communication and Bias

Relevant Scholarship

Below are relevant databases for finding scholarly journal articles on health communication and bias. Journal articles are written by experts in their fields.  In many library databases you can click a "peer reviewed" or "scholarly article" box to produce a list of references to these types of articles.
 

CINAHL: Covers journals in nursing and allied health fields. Example articles include:

• How can the nursing profession help reduce sexual and gender minority related health disparities: Recommendations from the National Nursing LGBTQ Health Summit
• How Nurses Come to Race: Racialization in Public Health Breastfeeding Promotion
• Nursing is never neutral: Political determinants of health and systemic marginalization

Communication and Mass Media Complete: Literature in communication, journalism, and media studies. Example articles include:

• Communicating Environmental Health Risks with Indigenous Populations: A Systematic Literature Review of Current Research and Recommendations for Future Studies
• Cultural Appropriateness in Health Communication: A Review and A Revised Framework
• Investigating Disparities by Sex and LGBTQ Identity: A Content Analysis of Sexual Health Information on College Student Health Center Websites

PsycINFO: Scholarly literature in psychology and related social sciences. Example articles include:

• Dialogue as skill: Training a health professions workforce that can talk about race and racism
• Communicating with diverse patients: How patient and clinician factors affect disparities
• Development of a participatory health communication intervention: An ecological approach to reducing rural information inequality and health disparities

PubMed: Covers medical and some life science journals. Example articles include:

• Detecting implicit racial bias in provider communication behaviors to reduce disparities in healthcare: Challenges, solutions, and future directions for provider communication training
• Racial and Ethnic Discrepancy in Pulse Oximetry and Delayed Identification of Treatment Eligibility Among Patients With COVID-19
• Cultural competence: A systematic review of health care provider educational interventions