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SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
卷 323, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115837
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Social determinants of health; Narrative; Health disparities; EHRs; Qualitative methods; Women?s health; Sociology of knowledge
Current policy efforts aim to address health disparities by integrating social determinants of health into electronic health records. However, clinician documentation and engagement with patients' social characteristics may contribute to these disparities.
Current policy efforts to reduce health disparities focus on integrating patients' social determinants of health (SDHs) into their electronic health records (EHRs), with the goal of addressing both clinical and social risks through the health system. Yet clinicians' documentation of and engagement with patients' social characteristics may, in certain circumstances, actually contribute to health disparities. This paper compares accounts of clinical encounters from in-depth interviews with forty-six non-college-educated women against their EHR's codes and free-text notes, which document the clinician's perspective of the encounter. We identify how documentation of clinical encounters may exacerbate the very health disparities that health systems seek to intervene upon by 1) translating social suffering stemming from structural inequality into stigmatized risk factors, and 2) suppressing conflicts over diagnosis and treatment, sometimes by framing observations of women's social identities as evi-dence of their unreliability as patients. We demonstrate how perceived negative interactions lead some women to resist the health system, either by self-treating in ways that could adversely affect their health or by attempting to challenge the authority of clinicians, which is not documented as resistance in their medical charts.
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