The second course of the Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare specialization you will journey through a survey of critical drivers of racial inequities in healthcare. These critical drivers need to be known in order to implement interventions that can achieve health equity.
Causes of Racial Inequity in Healthcare
Causes of Racial Inequity in Healthcare
This course is part of Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare Specialization
Instructor: Minal R. Patel
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14 hours to complete
3 weeks at 4 hours a week
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What you'll learn
What constitutes access to care, how geographic variation in healthcare contributes to racial and ethnic healthcare disparities
History of mistreatment of racial and ethnic groups within biomedical innovation and healthcare systems
The role of implicit bias in contributing to healthcare disparities
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7 quizzes
Taught in English
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There are 5 modules in this course
Welcome to Causes of Racial Inequity in Healthcare! This week, we will learn about how financing in the U.S. healthcare system works, how public health insurance systems are administered, and how these systems contribute to racial health inequities. We will examine this through insurance systems and hospitals. The many different insurance systems and hospital systems and how they connect financially are actually complex web.
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7 videos11 readings1 quiz4 discussion prompts
This week, we will learn about what access to care actually means. To fully address healthcare access, there must be an effort to improve different areas to access. We will also examine the role of geography and place as it relates to racial inequities in healthcare.
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4 videos7 readings2 quizzes3 discussion prompts
This week, we will learn about the long history of mistreatment of racial/ethnic groups in healthcare settings and in advancing biomedical innovation and understand why mistreatment is a cause of racial inequity in healthcare vs. the concept of mistrust.
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9 readings2 quizzes1 app item2 discussion prompts
Race and racism show up in many aspects of healthcare and the practice of medicine. This week, we will examine modern-day racism and discrimination and how this shows up in healthcare. We will also examine the sources of where racial equity begins to show up in medicine through mechanisms of diagnosis and treatment patterns.
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8 readings1 quiz1 discussion prompt
Prejudice and discrimination are not only conscious but also show up in society and healthcare through unconscious means. This week, we will take a deep dive into implicit bias, and how it impacts the practice of medicine.
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9 videos5 readings1 quiz3 discussion prompts
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