Bias and discrimination in healthcare settings

Question 1

Stereotypes

Answer 1

Cognitive expectancies and associations about groups of other people

Question 2

Prejudice

Answer 2

Emotional reaction to someone on basis of group membership

Question 3

Discrimination

Answer 3

Acting on the basis of stereotypes and prejudicee

Question 4

Institutional bias

Answer 4

Equitable treatment, regardless of race/ethnicity etc, is a patient right

Question 5

Explicit bias

Answer 5

at a conscious level, deliberately formed and expressed