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How do we integrate training in Generalism in medical education?

Better Health For All

COVID-19 has further emphasised the significance of public health as a speciality and rekindled wider interest in health inequalities [1]. Generalism is a form of clinical practice that is shaped around the priority health needs of the person rather than the practitioners’ own field of expertise.

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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

For example, overadjustment may occur if a researcher adjusts for health-related behaviours when trying to estimate the total effect of education on mortality (Figure 1). Overadjustment bias in systematic reviews and meta-analyses of socio-economic inequalities in health: a meta-research scoping review.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

Put simply, said Jameta Nicole Barlow , a community health psychologist and professor at George Washington University, government actions send a clear message to Black people: “Who are you to ask for health care?” ” Past and Present The end of slavery gave way to laws that denied Black people in the U.S.