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.
Cultural Competence Health Equity Social Determinants of Health
A primary aim of this course is to provide public health professionals with a broad overview of cultural diversity issues with a focus on race/ethnicity and gender. Health disparities, a major public health problem of interest, is discussed using cultural diversity as the conceptual framework for thinking about the role of the public health community and health policy solutions for addressing these issues. As a part of this process, course participants are exposed to introductory cultural diversity concepts. In addition, participants also have an opportunity to engage in critical thinking regarding the current social and health problems that impact the public’s health, particularly racial minorities.
Cultural Competence Health Equity
The purpose of this course is to provide public health practitioners with the awareness and knowledge to incorporate diversity and cultural competency concepts, tools, and techniques into their daily work. It is expected that by the end of this course that each participant will be conversant in issues related to culture and health, health disparities, and community health models designed to close the gap in health disparities.
Learning Objectives:
- To describe the demographic trends and epidemiological trends related to diverse populations in the United States and abroad
- To compare and contrast diversity and cultural competency in the public health context
- To identify a framework to design culturally competent public health care services for diverse populations
Cultural Competence Health Equity Strategic Planning
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.
Cultural Competence Health Equity Social Determinants of Health
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.
Communication Community and Organizational Partnerships Cultural Competence Group Processes/Facilitation Health Equity Health Literacy Leadership Social Determinants of Health Strategic Planning
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
Communication Community and Organizational Partnerships Cultural Competence Group Processes/Facilitation Health Equity Health Literacy Leadership Social Determinants of Health Strategic Planning
