Does social concordance matter?
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.
Authors
- Janeane N. Anderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2602-6957)
Institutions
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Primary Care
- Published
- 2025-11-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-025-03080-w
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.82