Reducing Health Disparities.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online, face-to-face or hybrid). 3 credits. Prerequisite: HADM 662 or permission of instructor. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students. This course explores the current strategies used to reduce health disparities, including how health care organizations and public entities are funding efforts to address unconscious bias, patient-centered care and the social determinants of health, such as housing, food insecurity and environmental conditions, as well as increased access to health care as a means to reduce health disparities. It applies knowledge of existing strategies to critical-thinking models for further assessment. At the end of the course, students will be able to identify strategies to address unconscious bias and promote patient-centered care for themselves and colleagues; apply models of critical thinking to assess existing strategies; identify gaps left to be addressed; and begin to identify/crystalize the community partnership for their final health equity project.