Related Guides
Cultural Safety and Cultural Humility in Healthcare
- CulturallyConnected"CulturallyConnected provides practical information and tools to enable health professionals to better support the health of children, youth, women, and families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds."
- Black Underrepresentation in Medicine and Community HealthPresentation from UBC Events' 2021 series Where are all the Black People?
- Methods for Supporting Diverse Patient EngagementModules from the BC SUPPORT Unit with guidance on engaging d/Deaf communities; Immigrant, refugee, racialized, and ethnocultural communities; rural and remote communities; LGBTQ2S+ communities; and disabled communities.
Gender, Sex and Sexual Orientation
- Positive Space: Foundations"The Positive Space: Foundations online course provides low-barrier access for students, staff, and faculty to learn about sex, sexuality, and gender diversity."
- Gender & Sex in Methods & Measurement ToolkitFrom UBC's Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity
- Seeing Us as We Are: Gender, Sex, & Sexual Orientation Identification in Electronic Health RecordsPolicy brief from the Community Based Research Centre.
- Stigma and Resilience among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC) "At SARAVYC, we believe in research that makes a difference and focuses on resilience. Since 2006, we’ve been conducting rigorous, cutting-edge, and award-winning research that studies how stigma, discrimination, violence, and trauma affect young people’s health. Our goal is to identify factors that foster youth resilience in spite of stigma."
Disability
- Anti-AbleismResource guide from University of Victoria
- Equity and Medicine - Disability JusticeResources from Wayne State University Library System
- Alliance for Disability in Health Care EducationLearning resources, organized by category: Interprofessional education, integrated care, discipline-specific, disability specific organizations, and disability advocacy and activism
- PCPE Living LibraryInterviews with patients and caregivers, produced by UBC Health. Topics covered include: Communication and Relationship Building with Healthcare Professionals; Stigma, Assumptions, and Stereotypes; Chronic Disease; Healthcare Teams; End-of-Life; Healthcare Advocacy; and Substance Use
- Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement This link opens in a new windowPrimary source collection of newspapers, videos, texts and images that document the rise of a social movement around disability history and disability studies.
The play Alone in the Ring, from the UBC Research-Based Theatre Collaborative, explores the experiences of health professionals with disabilities. The video below describes its development.
Finding and Evaluating Literature
- ISSG Search Filters ResourceSearch filters are strings of search terms which you can reuse or adapt for your own search. Sometimes they have been validated to test their efficacy. You can find filters here for different populations, as well as for health equity in general.
- Trends in…Controlled Vocabulary and Health EquityArticle from Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 41(2): 2022
- PROGRESS-PlusTool to assess equity aspects of research. PROGRESS refers to: Place, Race, Occupation, Gender, Religion, Education, Socioeconomic status, and Social capital; Plus: personal characteristics associated with discrimination; features of relationships; and time-dependent relationships.
- Ethnic Diversity Source This link opens in a new windowA full-text database of journal articles, books, and primary sources that focus on various topics around ethnicity and race within the Americas.
Core UBC Readings and Resources
- UBC Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force ReportsFull report and reports from committees.
- EQUIP Equity Action KitToolkit developed by UBC/UNBC/Western "designed to help guide organizations in diverse health and social service settings who want to implement equity-oriented care."