Date of Award
5-2023
Document Type
Thesis open access
Department
Sociology and Anthropology
First Advisor
Benjamin Sosnaud
Second Advisor
Amy Stone
Abstract
The theory of cultural health capital factors in a patient’s resources in their likelihood of accessing quality healthcare. The notion of quantifying a patient’s resources when researching equitable care, inadvertently places more of a focus on patient based interventions: policies focused on expanding a patient's resources. Yet, I push past this approach and suggest studying practoner’s capital in parallel to patients as a better predictor of quality of care. Practitioner's employ their own resources to make healthcare more equitable for underserved populations, and empowering clinicians to serve as agents of change in the patient-provider relationship takes the weight off of patients and allows practitioners to influence the quality of care patient’s experience.
Recommended Citation
Gonzalez, Sofia, "Identifying Providers as Agents of Change for Clinical-Based Interventions by Considering Provider's Intrinsic Motivations and Capital" (2023). Sociology and Anthropology Honors Theses. 23.
https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/socanthro_honors/23