Attaining Health Equity: Focusing Our Lens on What’s Important
hosted byBaptist Health South FloridaAttaining Health Equity: Focusing Our Lens on What’s Important is organized by Baptist Health South Florida.
Course opens: 09/01/2022
Course expires: 08/31/2025
Overview:
According to the CDC, “Health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” Health inequities are reflected in differences in length of life; quality of life; rates of disease, disability, and death; severity of disease; and access to treatment.” health equity. In this online course, guest faculty, Mishah Azhar, M.D., and Danielle Little, M.D., discuss Attaining Health Equity: Focusing Our Lens on What’s Important.
Learning Objectives:
• Define health equity and various terms associated with this, such as structural inequity, racism and social determinants of health.
• Identify health disparities and health equity and assess factors that play a role in this.
• Examine the rationale behind the importance of addressing health disparities and health equity, including factors that contribute to these disparities.
• Review ways in which physicians can play a role in addressing health disparity and health equity to optimize medical care for these patient populations.
