Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Social concordance is a facilitator of key dimensions of healthcare engagement and may mitigate effects of systemic oppression. Given social hierarchies disadvantage marginalized patients in medical encounters, social concordance can strengthen the patient-clinician therapeutic alliance and increase communication and epistemic justice, necessary precursors to patient empowerment and improved health outcomes.
Source: BMC Family Practice
Author: Janeane N. Anderson
Institution: University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,790
OpenAlex ID: W4416773227