Description:
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.Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes: "...provides definitions of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) across various healthcare disciplines, highlighting the current state, historical context, and proposed interventions for each discipline. [It] contains illustrations of people included in the definition of EDI with comparison to other countries including the United Kingdom and Canada. The purpose of this book is to address the definition of EDI and the lack of diversity in specific healthcare fields, ... also explores ways to increase representation across the healthcare continuum focusing on the chosen fields in this book.... Each chapter provides a high-level overview of EDI and how to increase the ratio of diverse healthcare workers to communities served.... The definition of illustrations (color) and graphs were very helpful in grasping a full understanding of the need for EDI activities in healthcare.... [It] will be of great benefit for students not familiar with the elements of EDI and specifically for students pursuing a career in one of the disciplines addressed in this book." (c)Doody's Review Service, 2025, Carol Steans, MA, MSN, RN (DNV Healthcare)