Journal
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
Volume 25, Issue -, Pages S178-S181Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-009-1229-9
Keywords
worldview; health disparities; health education
Funding
- National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), National Institutes of Health (NIH) [1 KL2 RR024151]
- NIH Roadmap for Medical Research
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Worldviews are sets of beliefs and assumptions that express how cultures interpret and explain their experience. Worldview has been a useful explanatory construct in the social science literature, but has been used less often in the context of human health. Reducing and ultimately eliminating the negative role that health care providers play in producing health disparities will require a cultural change. Here I posit that worldview is a critically important concept for health disparities education that overtime will serve to transform the culture of health care professionals toward a more self-reflective, humble, and open-minded posture.
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