The UVA Health Sciences Library is committed to fostering an environment that supports scholarship at the highest level and lifelong learning. In this pursuit we aspire to create a culture of engagement, belonging and trust through our ASPIRE values. We embrace equity in the broadest sense, as a means to promote fairness, opportunity, and inclusion to ensure that every person who needs our resources, services, and spaces finds them universally accessible.

LibGuides is both an online creation platform and what the products made with it are called. While the Health Sciences Library creates guides on a wide range of healthcare-related topics, the guides listed on this page are relevant to groups and issues affected by inclusivity, diversity, equity, and accessibility. 

Do you have suggestions for other IDEA-related guides that we should create? If so, please reach out to Kimberley R. Barker (Kimberley@virginia.edu).

• UVA Health Historical Research Guide

• Health Disparities

  • General Guide

  • Relating specifically to COVID-19

  • Relating specifically to the LGBTQIA+ community

  • Relating specifically to Climate Change and Healthcare
     

• Cultural Trauma

• Healthcare and the LGBTQIA+ Community

• Racism in Healthcare and Health Sciences Education

• UVA Health Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Community Engagement

• Inclusion, Diversity & Excellence Achievement (IDEA)

• Diversity at the School of Medicine

Definition:

According to the Linguistic Society of America, language is inclusive when it, "... acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities."

Guides


MGH IHP's Guide to Inclusive Language Guidelines (APA Style 7th Edition)- a quick guide.

APA Inclusive Language Guidelines- the entire guide.

AAMC Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts

Why Inclusive Language is Important

The Power of Inclusive Language:Building Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

The Importance of Developing and Implementing an Inclusive Language and Image Policy in Medical Schools