Achieving Health Equity in Healthcare
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Achieving Health Equity in Healthcare
This course is part of Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare Specialization
Instructor: Minal R. Patel
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The community health center model is an intervention to combat racial and ethnic healthcare disparities
The role of reparations as an intervention to combat racial and ethnic healthcare disparities
How health systems implement quality improvement initiatives as an intervention to combat racial and ethnic healthcare disparities
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There are 5 modules in this course
The third and the last course of the Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare specialization will go through various approaches that are used to addressing racial inequity in healthcare., and the strengths and challenges of those approaches. You will explore legal, policy, and regulatory approaches to interventions such as Title IX in the United States. You will explore what is being done to intervene on providers to reduce differential care. You will unpack quality improvement and multiple approaches to leveraging healthcare systems and community partnerships to address access to care. You will also come to understand the history and role of community health centers in being critical infrastructure in addressing the health needs of diverse populations. Finally, you will be introduced to the workforce initiatives and the reparations that aim to close the racial and ethnic healthcare disparities gaps.
In this module, we will learn about the community health center model and how it can help us achieve racial equity in healthcare. We will learn about how the community health center model is a critical provider of care and what it means to implement and sustain these types of models.
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3 videos7 readings1 assignment2 discussion prompts
3 videosβ’Total 28 minutes
- Course Introduction and Connections to Previous Courses: History and Causes of Racial Inequity in Healthcareβ’3 minutes
- Meet Your Professorβ’1 minute
- Sustaining Community Health Centers with Ricardo Guzmanβ’24 minutes
7 readingsβ’Total 25 minutes
- Course Syllabusβ’5 minutes
- Course Glossary of Termsβ’5 minutes
- Pre-Course Surveyβ’0 minutes
- The Critical Role of Community Health Centers in Healthcare Deliveryβ’10 minutes
- The Community Health Center Modelβ’3 minutes
- Up Next: An Interview with Ricardo Guzmanβ’2 minutes
- Module 1 Optional Resourcesβ’0 minutes
1 assignmentβ’Total 5 minutes
- Lesson Quiz: Community Health Centers: A Critical Provider of Careβ’5 minutes
2 discussion promptsβ’Total 20 minutes
- Meet Your Fellow Global Classmatesβ’10 minutes
- Reflection: CHASS Community Health in Detroit Discussionβ’10 minutes
In this module, we will learn about anti-discrimination laws and policies. We will critically examine how laws and policies help us get closer to racial equity in healthcare while simultaneously critiquing the challenges of legal and policy mechanisms as interventions toward equity goals.
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6 readings2 assignments
6 readingsβ’Total 73 minutes
- Civil Rights and Hospital Integrationβ’15 minutes
- Challenges to Reducing Discrimination and Health Inequity Through Existing Civil Rights Lawsβ’10 minutes
- Mechanisms for Disciplinary Actionβ’30 minutes
- Patient Dumpingβ’8 minutes
- Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA): Opportunities and Challengesβ’10 minutes
- Module 2 Optional Resourcesβ’0 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 10 minutes
- Lesson Quiz: The Civil Rights Act and Anti-Discriminationβ’5 minutes
- Lesson Quiz: Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)β’5 minutes
In this module, we will learn about intervening at the provider level to address racial inequity. To understand the foundations of provider interventions, we must first have a basic understanding of concepts and definitions we often see associated with provider-level approaches to achieving health equity. We will then critically appraise approaches to intervention with providers.
What's included
2 videos9 readings2 assignments1 app item1 discussion prompt
2 videosβ’Total 22 minutes
- Is it Cultural Competence or Cultural Humility?β’3 minutes
- Diversifying the Healthcare Workforce: What It Is and Why It Matters with David Brownβ’19 minutes
9 readingsβ’Total 82 minutes
- The Evidence on Race Concordanceβ’40 minutes
- Differences Between Anti-Discrimination Laws, Patient Preference, and Race Concordanceβ’2 minutes
- Introduction to Specific Provider Interventionsβ’1 minute
- Does Diversity Training Work?β’5 minutes
- Up Next: An Interview with Dr. David Brownβ’1 minute
- Health Systems and Accommodating Patient Preferenceβ’18 minutes
- Intervention to Address Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Healthcare Assignmentβ’10 minutes
- Intervention to Address Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Healthcare Assignment: General Feedbackβ’5 minutes
- Module 3 Optional Resourcesβ’0 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 6 minutes
- Lesson Quiz: Foundations of Provider Interventionsβ’5 minutes
- Intervention to Address Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Healthcare Assignment Checkβ’1 minute
1 app itemβ’Total 60 minutes
- Submit Your Intervention to Address Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Healthcare Assignmentβ’60 minutes
1 discussion promptβ’Total 10 minutes
- Reflection: Appraising Provider Interventionsβ’10 minutes
In this module, we will learn about what it means to improve quality and access to healthcare. We first walk through quality improvement and what healthcare systems do from a data collection perspective to improve quality. We will then examine in-depth how healthcare systems utilize non-traditional provider roles within the healthcare team, such as community health workers and enrollment assistants, to improve quality. We will examine what it means for hospitals to improve the health of their surrounding community.
What's included
10 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
10 readingsβ’Total 78 minutes
- What is Quality Improvement?β’12 minutes
- Collecting Race/Ethnicity Data to Drive Quality Improvementβ’15 minutes
- Quality Improvement and Equityβ’3 minutes
- Introduction to Examples of Improving Quality and Access in Health Systemsβ’1 minute
- Community Health Workers: A Timelineβ’10 minutes
- Community Health Workers in Improving Quality of Careβ’11 minutes
- Introduction to Community Benefit β’1 minute
- Community Benefit: Past and Futureβ’15 minutes
- Reporting Requirements: Outcomes vs. Monetaryβ’10 minutes
- Module 4 Optional Resourcesβ’0 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 10 minutes
- Lesson Quiz: Introduction to Quality Improvement and Using Dataβ’5 minutes
- Lesson Quiz: Community Benefitβ’5 minutes
1 discussion promptβ’Total 10 minutes
- Reflection: Quality Improvement in Health Systemsβ’10 minutes
In this module, we will learn about the role of anti-racism and reparations in healthcare. In order to take active steps to achieve health equity in healthcare, we must first structure and root our understanding of what anti-racism and reparations means for healthcare.
What's included
1 video12 readings2 assignments1 discussion prompt
1 videoβ’Total 3 minutes
- Conclusion: Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare Specializationβ’3 minutes
12 readingsβ’Total 197 minutes
- What Are Reparations and Why Do They Matter?β’10 minutes
- History of Reparations in the United Statesβ’15 minutes
- Reparations: Key Issuesβ’16 minutes
- Presidential Apology for Tuskegee Syphilis Studyβ’3 minutes
- Reparations: HELA Cells and Henrietta Lacksβ’10 minutes
- American Medical Association Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equityβ’60 minutes
- Critical Race Theory: What It Really Is and What It Is Notβ’8 minutes
- Anti-Racism Frameworkβ’10 minutes
- Anti-Racism and Healthcareβ’10 minutes
- Building an Antiracist Workplaceβ’45 minutes
- Module 5 Optional Resourcesβ’0 minutes
- Post-Course and Specialization Surveyβ’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 10 minutes
- Lesson Quiz: Reparations in Healthcareβ’5 minutes
- Lesson Quiz: Antiracism in Healthcareβ’5 minutes
1 discussion promptβ’Total 10 minutes
- Reflection: What Do Reparations Look Like In Your Context?β’10 minutes
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Reviewed on Jul 3, 2023
Very great course. I learned more than I expected, plus read some really informative papers.
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