Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Reducing Bias in Healthcare
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Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Reducing Bias in Healthcare
Instructor: Ebbin Dotson
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Recognize the foundational connection between biases and health care management and policy.
Challenge your awareness, values, and actions on implicit and unconscious bias.
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There are 4 modules in this course
Bias in healthcare delivery leads to worse patient care and patient outcomes. Advancing Health Equity: A Guide for Reducing Bias in Healthcare provides you an interactive bias training that teaches skills applicable to addressing enhanced public health guidelines and approaching the work of health equity.
The racial and ethnic makeup of the United States is constantly shifting, and more specifically, becoming more diverse. Such changes require a more health equity-focused workforce and health equity-minded leadership. Bias training plays an essential role in leadership development, and it’s become imperative for all healthcare workers to recognize the foundational connection between biases and health care management and policy. This course is designed to challenge your awareness, values, and actions on implicit and unconscious bias, and is intended to guide individuals hoping to contribute to this work in a healthcare context. The following core concepts form the basis of instruction and together offer an introductory perspective on this pressing topic: 1.) Community Orientation; 2.) Organizational Awareness; 3.) Professionalism; 4.) Accountability, Change Leadership, and Strategic Orientation. An interactive 360-video experience allows you to engage in healthcare situations that center bias on multiple levels of our healthcare delivery systems. You will be prompted to consider multiple perspectives and roles, and use empathy to analyze bias and take action.
Community Orientation is the ability to align one’s own and the organization’s priorities with the needs and values of the community, including its cultural and ethnocentric values and to move health forward in line with population-based wellness needs and national health agenda.
What's included
10 videos7 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
10 videos•Total 63 minutes
- Welcome to the Course•4 minutes
- What is the Collaborative? •1 minute
- Community Orientation and Learning Objectives•5 minutes
- What's at Stake? •12 minutes
- Types of Biases•9 minutes
- Biases are Rooted in Evidence•9 minutes
- Health Disparities•5 minutes
- Health Equity is Personal & Defining Health Equity•13 minutes
- Case Study Introduction: Baby Holloway•2 minutes
- Reflective Response: Baby Holloway Case•3 minutes
7 readings•Total 111 minutes
- Course Syllabus•4 minutes
- Pre-Course Survey•10 minutes
- Acknowledgements•5 minutes
- Articles: Greenwald and McCartney, Et al. •55 minutes
- Implicit Association Test (IAT)•30 minutes
- Case Study Content Warning•2 minutes
- Case Study: Baby Holloway•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
- Module 1 Quiz•10 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
- Baby Holloway•10 minutes
Organizational Awareness is ability to understand and learn the formal and informal decision-making structures and power relationships in an organization or industry (e.g., stakeholders, suppliers). This includes the ability to identify who the real decision makers are and the individuals who can influence them, and to predict how new events will affect individuals and groups within the organization.
What's included
6 videos5 readings1 assignment2 discussion prompts
6 videos•Total 33 minutes
- Organizational Awareness and Learning Objectives•2 minutes
- What's at Stake? Community Orientation Review •7 minutes
- Power and Leadership •11 minutes
- Moving Towards Individuality-Values•8 minutes
- Case Study Introduction: Language Barrier•2 minutes
- Reflective Response: Language Barrier Case•3 minutes
5 readings•Total 88 minutes
- Articles: Carter-Pokras & Marmot•25 minutes
- Article: Iton•10 minutes
- Rokeach Value Survey (RVS)•30 minutes
- Article: BudzÍnski •20 minutes
- Case Study: Language Barrier•3 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
- Module 2 Quiz•10 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 32 minutes
- Rokeach Value Survey Discussion•30 minutes
- Case Study: Language Barrier•2 minutes
Professionalism is the demonstration of ethics, sound professional practices, social accountability, and community stewardship; the desire to act in a way that is consistent with one’s values and what one says is important.
What's included
8 videos6 readings1 assignment1 app item1 discussion prompt
8 videos•Total 28 minutes
- Professionalism and Learning Objectives •2 minutes
- What's at Stake: Organizational Awareness Review•9 minutes
- Harmful Bias•6 minutes
- Identifying Microaggressions•6 minutes
- Conflict Management Style Survey•1 minute
- Reflective Conclusion: Conflict Management Survey•2 minutes
- Case Study: Gender Name Calling •1 minute
- Reflective Response: Gender Name Calling Case •1 minute
6 readings•Total 68 minutes
- Articles: Catalyst & Dovidio•14 minutes
- Article: Sue•16 minutes
- CAREN Act•6 minutes
- Conflict Styles Assessment (CSA)•20 minutes
- Case Study: Gender Name Calling•2 minutes
- Post-Experience Survey Opportunity•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
- Module 3 Quiz•10 minutes
1 app item•Total 30 minutes
- ⭐Interactive Experience: Gender Name Calling•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 20 minutes
- Gender Name Calling•20 minutes
Accountability is our ability to hold people accountable to standards of performance; Change Leadership is to influence people towards the achievement of a set of goals; and Strategic Orientation is to consider implications of decisions in strategic ways that continually improve organizational long-term success.
What's included
11 videos7 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
11 videos•Total 54 minutes
- Accountability, Change Leadership and Strategic Orientation •3 minutes
- Building a Culture of Accountability•7 minutes
- Seeing Accountability in Organizations•7 minutes
- Change Leadership: Part 1•7 minutes
- Change Leadership: Part 2•8 minutes
- Strategic Orientation•11 minutes
- From Community Orientation to Strategic Orientation and Emotional Intelligence•5 minutes
- Emotional Intelligence Assessment •1 minute
- Case Study Introduction: Health Inequity and Implicit Bias•1 minute
- Reflective Response Video: Health Inequity and Implicit Bias•2 minutes
- Final Thoughts •2 minutes
7 readings•Total 63 minutes
- Article: Petkovic•10 minutes
- Article: Lencioni & FitzGerald•10 minutes
- Article: FitzGerald, C., Hurst, S•10 minutes
- Article: Freshman & Rubino•10 minutes
- Emotional Intelligence Test (EIT)•10 minutes
- Case Study: Health Inequity and Implicit Bias•3 minutes
- Exit Survey•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
- Module 4 Quiz•10 minutes
1 discussion prompt
- Health Inequity and Implicit Bias•0 minutes
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