This is a subject that is still very little documented in France. While in the United States, with ethnic statistics helping, there are numerous studies, research on “implicit racial biases” in health, these unconscious prejudices and stereotypes likely to lead to differences in patient care, still remains. confidential in France. Published work has so far concentrated in the areas of perinatal care and emergencies.
“I started to become interested in this question at the beginning of the 2010s because the discrimination experienced in different spheres of social life could not alone explain the inequalities in maternal and perinatal health that we were seeing. Beyond the discrimination exercised consciously, it seemed to us that unconscious discrimination was at work among health professionals”explains Elie Azria, obstetrician-gynecologist, head of the maternity ward at Paris Saint-Joseph hospital.
To document this hypothesis, he coordinated and built with members of the research team in perinatal and pediatric obstetric epidemiology (Epopé-Inserm) to which he belongs, a research program, called “BIP” (implicit bias in perinatality). , funded by the National Research Agency and launched in 2019. The idea being to shed light on the differences in treatment between women born in France and migrant women.
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