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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Diversity and Accessibility in Healthcare

Diversity and Accessibility in Healthcare current awareness bulletin

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December 2025

Advancing women, maternal, newborn, and child health equity

Ageism in rheumatology: the health care professional's perspective

Application of cisgender anesthesia clinical scoring systems in the transgender and gender-diverse populations

Community health agents dismantling gender norms in a machismo society

Disclosure practices in Muslim patients and the impact on end-of-life care: a narrative review

Diversity of CPR manikins for basic life support education: use of manikin sex, race and body shape

Exploring the dimensions of discrimination in emergency department services: a qualitative study

Gap of women leadership in global obesity research

Gender and racial diversity in leadership roles within academic surgery internationally: a retrospective cross-sectional study pre-COVID-19

Impact of surgeon race, ethnicity, and gender on perceptions of professional behavior in the operating room

Inclusive pathways in anesthesiology: addressing structural and cultural barriers on International Women's Day

Inclusivity in plastic surgery – Insights, Recommendations, & Education (INSPIRE): a pilot identity-concordant mentorship programme for underrepresented students in plastic surgery

Interplay of race and community characteristics on health disparities among Medicare beneficiaries with peripheral artery disease

Mental health outcomes in transgender and nonbinary people: an umbrella review

A meta-analytic review of the relationship between racial discrimination and alcohol and other drug use outcomes in minoritised racial/ethnic groups

The race-correction debates — progress, tensions, and future directions

Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer mortality hotspots: a multi-state geospatial analysis

Reliability of the Ichthyosis Scoring System in individuals with skin of color

Reproductive coercion, medical mistrust, and Black women’s health from the antebellum period to the 21st century

The ‘second shift’ in emergency medicine: strengths and barriers of the gendered double burden

Sexual-orientation disparities in whole person health: age- and gender-stratified analysis of patients in a safety-net system

Socioeconomic status, voice disorder risk, and voice-related handicap across childhood

Where are you from? (geographic identity in healthcare)

Sources

Addiction (Dec); American Journal of Cardiology (Oct); American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine (Nov); American Journal of Surgery (Oct); Anesthesia & Analgesia (Sep); Arthritis Care & Research (Oct); Community Health Equity Research & Policy (Oct); Emergency Medicine Australasia (Oct); Emergency Medicine Journal (Nov); International Journal for Equity in Health (Nov); JAMA (Nov); JAMA Dermatology (Aug); JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery (Oct); JAMA Psychiatry (Nov); Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (Oct); Lancet (Nov); NEJM (Sep); Obesity (Sep)

October 2025

The association of race and ethnicity with risk-reducing mastectomies in patients with non-BRCA mutations

Birth of a change agent: the founding of “Women in Ophthalmology”

Comparative analysis of autistic women across the lifespan: childhood vs. adulthood diagnosis

Dermatologic care and skin health of migrant populations in the US: a scoping review

Emergency medical service use for acute coronary syndrome in culturally and linguistically diverse immigrant populations

Evaluating gender bias in large language models in long-term care

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

Exploring the connection of health disparities and inequities with health care-acquired infections in North America: a scoping review of the literature

The glass ceiling in global health: perspectives of female and male anesthesiologists

Immigration crackdown threatens NHS workforce, data show (BMJ data briefing)

Impact of racial disparities on treatment of early triple negative breast cancer among American Indians/Alaska Natives and Non-Hispanic Whites

Inequities in COVID-19 antiviral dispensation in Victoria, Australia: a retrospective cohort study using linked data

The Lancet One Health Commission: harnessing our interconnectedness for equitable, sustainable, and healthy socioecological systems

Landscape of emergency Medicaid and health care coverage for undocumented immigrants in the US

Life expectancy of American Indian and Alaska Native persons and underreporting of mortality in vital statistics

Lived experience of caring for dying Muslim patients in emergency room: a phenomenological study

Male and female healthcare trajectories in autism: are there any differences considering age at diagnosis and intellectual or developmental disabilities status?

Palliative care experiences among adults from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in the United States: a scoping review

Phyllodes tumor of the breast: race-related differences in presentation, pathology and prognosis

Race, ethnicity and risk for colonisation and infection with key bacterial pathogens: a scoping review

Racial and ethnic differences in postoperative nausea and vomiting care

Racial and ethnic differences in the association between statin use and the risk of ocular hypertension and open-angle glaucoma

Racial and ethnic disparities in failure-to-rescue after postoperative sepsis after noncardiac surgery

Racial and ethnic disparities in longitudinal trajectories of hospitalizations in patients diagnosed with heart failure

Racial disparities in the management of gallstone pancreatitis: deviations from standard of care

Reform and remedy for imprecision and inequity — ending the race-based evaluation of occupational pulmonary impairment

The role of policy in preventing discrimination-based suicide and substance use coping outcomes within the transgender community

Sex as a biological variable: a contemporary perspective

Social isolation and loneliness among racial/ethnic minoritized older adults

Socioeconomic disparities in the care of high-risk pulmonary embolism in the United States, 2016 to 2020

Stigma and discrimination in healthcare: challenges faced by burn patients in India

Sources

American Heart Journal (Sep); American Journal of Cardiology, The (Sep); American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine (Aug); American Journal of Infection Control (Jul); American Journal of Ophthalmology (Aug); American Journal of Surgery, The (Sep); Anesthesia and Analgesia (Jul-Aug); Australian Journal of General Practice (Sep); Autism Research (Aug); BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (Aug); BMJ, The (Aug); BMJ Global Health (Aug); Burns (Aug); Clinical Breast Cancer (Aug); Clinical Imaging (Sep); Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (Aug); Heart, Lung and Circulation (Aug); JAMA (Jul); JAMA Dermatology (Jul); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jul); Lancet, The (Jul-Aug); NEJM (Jul); Omega (Aug); Prevention Science (Jul)

August 2025

Addressing racism as a driver of racial disparities in surgical literature: a scoping review

The Black prisoners of Stateville: race, research, and reckoning at the dawn of precision medicine

Breast cancer treatment delay and the Hispanic paradox: a SEER database analysis

Debating race and the diagnosis of anemia — how medicine moved away from race-based standards

Digital photography guide for dermatologists with special considerations for diverse populations

The effect of race and area deprivation on symptom profiles over the course of early-stage breast cancer

Environmental risk factors for systemic lupus erythematosus through the lens of social determinants of health

Gender inequality in access to rheumatology care in APLAR countries: outcomes and potential solutions

The good death among Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color: which aspects of a good death are most important?

Implicit racial bias and unintentional harm in vascular care

Long COVID rates higher in women: evidence grows

The medicine of…Hajj

Implementing public health vending machines on the reservation lands of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa (United States)

Meta-analysis of racial and ethnic disparities in rhythm control strategies for atrial fibrillation in the United States

NHS must tackle racism and sexism for the benefit of patients, staff, and society - see also: “Normalising” racism and sexism will sink any NHS plan

Optimizing urologic care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning older adults

Racial equity in healthcare: turning Martin Luther King Jr's dream of racial equality into a 21st century reality

Risk of racism as a social determinant of suicidality among young adolescents in the United States: an investigation using the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study

Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among gender-minority adolescents in the emergency department

Trolling on social media is discouraging women doctors from speaking up

Values and preferences regarding the health sector response to interpersonal violence against transgender and gender-diverse individuals: a systematic review

“We can’t just admire the problem”: racism in medical research

Why should we be concerned by internalised racism in global health?

Sources

Academic Emergency Medicine (Jun); American Journal of Cardiology (Jun); American Journal of Surgery, The (Jun-Jul); Arthritis Care & Research (Jun); BMJ, The (Jun); BMJ Global Health (Jun); Clinics in Geriatric Medicine (May); Harm Reduction Journal (May); Internal Medicine Journal (Jun); International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases (Jun); JAMA (Jun); JAMA Dermatology (Jun); JAMA Surgery (May); Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Jun); Lancet, The (May); Lancet Psychiatry, The (Jul); Medscape (Jul); NEJM (Jun); Psychiatry Research (Jun)

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