Anti-racist interventions to reduce ethnic disparities in healthcare in the UK: an umbrella review and findings from healthcare, education and criminal justice.
Jennifer Lai Yee YipShoba PoduvalLeah de Souza-ThomasSophie CarterKevin FentonPublished in: BMJ open (2024)
Many of the included studies were low or critically low quality due to methodological or reporting limitations. For programme delivery, different types of pathway integration, and providing a more person-centred approach with fewer steps for patients to navigate can contribute to reducing disparities. For organisations, there is an overemphasis on individual behaviour change and recommendations should include a shift in focus and resources to policies and practices that seek to dismantle institutional and systemic racism through a multilevel approach.