JEDI Flashcards
What is diversity?
Diversity is any dimension that can be used to differentiate groups and people from one another.
“Who is in the room?”
What influences diversity?
Why is diversity important?
Encouraging diversity incorporates all the elements that make each individual unique and provides the opportunity to both learn from one another and connect with each other.
Diversity enhances creative input, differing ideas, and considers varying in perspectives to problem-solving.
In patient care, a diverse therapeutic team encourages cultural understanding of a diverse patient population.
A lack of diversity may lead to health disparities.
- Evidence shows that, broadly speaking, people of color have greater incidence and more severe cases of diseased compared to white people in the U.S.
What are benefits of diversity?
Address social determinants: improve quality of care, access, and equitable treatment.
More innovation: diverse perspectives promote creative solutions.
Improve communication: decrease cultural bias and communication breakdown.
Boost creativity: interacting with various cultures for greater learning and self-improvement.
Increased trust: respecting differences, identifying similarities, leveraging strengths.
Reduced health disparities: cultural understanding can improve health disparities and outcomes in diverse patient populations.
Enhanced awareness: understanding culture, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs and values, and social realities.
Higher retention: increase representation and promotion based on achievement and talent.
Increase engagement: equal participation without prejudice.
What is equity?
Equity refers to the fair and just treatment in relation to opportunities, access to those opportunities, and the available resources for everyone.
Providing equitable opportunities and access means changing the structure and systemic barriers that create inequities.
“Who is trying to get into the room and can’t?”
What is the difference between equity and equality?
Equality means each person or group is given the same resources.
Equity is a solution for addressing imbalanced social systems. Justice can take equity one step further by fixing the systems in a way that leads to long-term, sustainable, equitable access for future generations.
What are benefits of equity?
Equity as a shared vision and value:
- Increases community capacity.
- Structures outcomes
- Fosters multi-sector collaboration.
- Encourages solutions for equitable opportunities in health.
- Provide a foundation for a vibrant, healthy community.
The route to achieving equity will not be accomplished through treating everyone equally. It will be achieved by treating everyone justly according to their circumstances.
What inclusion?
environment in which all individuals are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and can contribute full to the organization’s success.
“Has everyone been included and has everyone’s ideas been heard?”
Why is inclusion important?
Inclusion offers a sense of belonging, in which diverse groups can present their authentic selves, contribute equally, and are afforded the same opportunities and access to resources.
Inclusion provides the safe space for collective differences and diverse backgrounds to be included, respected, and valued.
What is advocacy?
We can all be advocates for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Recognize that silence is an action.
Share resources and access for leadership opportunities and professional development.
Empathy: show empathy for the racial trauma experience by communities of color.
Encourage others through advocacy.
Listen and be mindful of other’s experiences.
Recognize and normalize speaking out against discriminatory practices and systemic inequities.
Assess and identify unconscious biases.
