This presentation equips public health workers with tools for motivating, initiating, and sustaining work to address health equity. These tools include an animation which distills three levels of health intervention; a definition of racism which can be generalized to become a definition of any structured inequity; an allegory which illustrates and encourages discussion about three levels of racism; data on the relationship between “socially assigned race” and self-rated health; a three-part definition of health equity including what it is, how to achieve it, and how it relates to health disparities; and information on an international anti-racism treaty which can serve as a platform for action. Describe the relationship between medical care, secondary prevention, primary prevention, addressing the social determinants of health, and addressing the social determinants of equity using the “Cliff Analogy.”
Learning Objectives:
- Define racism, and distinguish three levels of racism using the “Gardener’s Tale” allegory.
- Describe the relationship between “socially-assigned race” and self-rated general health status on the 2004 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
- Identify the status of the United States with regard to the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination.
Source:
Michigan Public Health Training Center
Topics:
Cultural Competence
Health Equity
Social Determinants of Health
Benchmarks:
Quality Improvement/Evaluation
This webcast addresses the rationale for collecting race and ethnicity data. Discusses the challenges and successes of these data collection efforts, explain why hospitals, emergency rooms, and surgery centers are logical places for data collection, and provide a road map for how to begin making the changes necessary to succeed.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify at least three examples of reported disparities in healthcare
- Describe why improved race and ethnicity data will help individual hospitals and facilities identify disparities in healthcare quality at their institution
- Illustrate successful strategies that are being used to improve the data collections process
Source:
University at Albany School of Public Health
Topics:
Health Equity
Program evaluation
Quality Improvement
Social Determinants of Health
Benchmarks:
Quality Improvement/Evaluation
This training teaches about how to evaluate Obesity Prevention, including how to evaluate disparities.
Source:
University of Minnesota Center for Training in Obesity Prevention
Topics:
Chronic Disease
Program evaluation
Social Determinants of Health
Benchmarks:
Quality Improvement/Evaluation
The Maternal and Child Health Leadership Skills Development Series brings leadership concepts to life in an MCH context, allowing you to conduct your own training sessions, within your own time frames and in your own settings.
The Maternal and Child Health Leadership Skills Development Series is a set of training modules designed for use in small groups. Each module offers a mix of presentation and exploration in different learning formats:
• Video “mini-lecture”
• Interactive group discussion questions and exercises
• Case study with discussion prompts and hands-on exercises
• Video clips from interviews with MCH leaders
• Individual self-reflection exercises
• Individual leadership development planning worksheet
Source:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Topics:
Communication
Community and Organizational Partnerships
Cultural Competence
Group Processes/Facilitation
Health Equity
Health Literacy
Leadership
Social Determinants of Health
Strategic Planning
Benchmarks:
CAN Implementation
Quality Improvement/Evaluation
Beyond Access: Inequalities in the generation, manipulation, and distribution of health information and the capacity to act on health information among social and cultural groups in the United States is discussed in an audio presentation by Dr. Kasiomayajula Viswanath. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research focuses on how inequalities in communication are associated with health disparities.
Source:
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Topics:
Communication
Community and Organizational Partnerships
Cultural Competence
Group Processes/Facilitation
Health Equity
Health Literacy
Leadership
Social Determinants of Health
Strategic Planning
Benchmarks:
CAN Implementation
Quality Improvement/Evaluation
This program features two experts in the field who will discuss current data on the topic, as well as opportunities for addressing disparities in maternal and child health. The first presenter will be Dr. Paula Braveman, who will provide a broad overview of current knowledge of the social determinants of maternal and child health and a conceptual framework for thinking about and addressing them. The second presenter is Dr. Wilhelmine Miller, who will review effective, non-clinical interventions for reducing the risks to healthy child development consequent to social and economic disadvantage and consider the adequacy of current levels of social investments in the well-being of low-income families with infants and young children. Current federal policies and funding for services to promote healthy early development will be discussed.
Source:
Altarum
Topics:
Health Equity
Social Determinants of Health
Benchmarks:
Quality Improvement/Evaluation
This presentation will discuss the rationale for explicitly addressing underlying racism, sexism and classism in order to be successful in efforts to eliminate racial, gender and socioeconomic disparities in health. The efforts of the Ingham County (Michigan) Health Department to focus on the role of public health in promoting social justice and the work of the health department in developing and implementing dialogue regarding oppression and social justice as vehicles for change will be described.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize linkages between institutional oppression and health inequalities.
- Explain the rationale for explicit attention to addressing underlying racism, sexism and classism to eliminate health inequities.
- Identify the potential for dialogue about issues related to oppression and social justice to increase health equity.
Source:
Michigan Public Health Training Center
Topics:
Cultural Competence
Health Equity
Social Determinants of Health
Benchmarks:
Quality Improvement/Evaluation