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Importance of Topic to Practice
Dietitians play an important role in critically analyzing how the healthcare system engages with and cares for culturally diverse clients, families and communities. Like other healthcare professionals, dietitians can perpetuate and be complicit in upholding unequal power dynamics that marginalize groups. This can occur within client-provider interactions, across the healthcare system and within society more broadly (1,2). Identifying and