1. Improving Health Equity
Understanding Health Disparities
Initiatives to Improve Health Equity
Your Role In Improving Health Equity

2. Four Health Disparities that Exist in the US
Socioeconomic factors: status Race-African Americans, American Indians, and Latinos-worse than whites even when socioeconomic status is the same
Variation in HealthCare quality Access to HealthCare

3. HealthCare Equity vs HealthCare Quality
Justice-A just, fair society
Equal treatment for individuals and groups
Health disparities come from an unjust social system. They are unwanted and avoidable differences in health.
Equal to ALL, no matter race, socioeconomic status, education or income.

4. Health Dispairites vs Health Difference
Health Disparity
Unfair social systems: income, job type, education level
Referred to as differences in Healthcare that are preventable and unfair
Health difference
Biological causes:
genetics or age

5. Institutional discrimination
Experiences
Internalized Racism

6. Initiatives to Improve Health Equity
Community Based HealthCare
ACO’s
Mobile Clinics

7. Beyond HealthCare-The Early Collaborative Years
EVIDENCE:
Poverty and disease are connected

8. Your Role in Improving Health Equity
ONE small step…
Implicit Bias
Conscious
Unconscious
CHALLENGE-take the test!
Implicit Bias by Harvard School of Public
Acknowledge it-NO SHAME!
do not allow it to contribute to disparities
Work to embrace diverse perspectives

9. Be Aware of Stress Level
Start with Self
Recognize
Understand
Be Aware of Stress Level
Aim to Empathize
Build Your Confidence
Approach as a Partner

10. Roadmap to Reducing Disparities: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Link quality and equity
Create a culture of equity
Diagnose the disparity
Design the activity
Secure the buy-in, asking others to help
Implement change

11. Create a Culture of Equity
Improve HealthCare Equity
Small steps= HUGE changes
BREAK the BIAS