Associate Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education
Achieving Health Equity in Healthcare
What You'll Learn
- The community health center model is an intervention to combat racial and ethnic healthcare disparities
- The role of reparations as an intervention to combat racial and ethnic healthcare disparities
- How health systems implement quality improvement initiatives as an intervention to combat racial and ethnic healthcare disparities
5 Modules
10 Hours
2 hrs per module (approx.)
Rating
About Achieving Health Equity in Healthcare
The third and the last course of the Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare specialization will go through various approaches that are used to addressing racial inequity in healthcare., and the strengths and challenges of those approaches. You will explore legal, policy, and regulatory approaches to interventions such as Title IX in the United States. You will explore what is being done to intervene on providers to reduce differential care. You will unpack quality improvement and multiple approaches to leveraging healthcare systems and community partnerships to address access to care. You will also come to understand the history and role of community health centers in being critical infrastructure in addressing the health needs of diverse populations. Finally, you will be introduced to the workforce initiatives and the reparations that aim to close the racial and ethnic healthcare disparities gaps.
Skills You'll Gain
- Community Health Improvement
- Diversity Equity & Inclusion Initiatives
- Diversity Equity & Inclusion Policies
- Healthcare Financing
- Healthcare Quality
- Healthcare Strategy
- Health Equity
What You'll Earn
- Certificate of Completion:
- Certificates of completion acknowledge knowledge acquired upon completion of a non-credit course or program.
Welcome Message
Welcome to Achieving Health Equity in Healthcare, the final course in the Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare specialization. This course explores actionable strategies to address racial and ethnic inequities in healthcare, including legal and policy approaches, provider-level interventions, quality improvement, community partnerships, and reparations. Learners will gain practical insight into how healthcare systems, communities, and the workforce can work together to advance equitable care.
This abbreviated syllabus description was created with the help of AI tools and reviewed by staff. The full syllabus is available to those who enroll in the course.
Course Schedule
Module 1: The Community Health Center Model
- Video: Course Introduction and Connections to Previous Courses: History and Causes of Racial Inequity in Healthcare
- Video: Meet Your Professor
- Discussion Prompt: Meet Your Fellow Global Classmates
- Reading: Course Syllabus
- Reading: Course Glossary of Terms
- Reading: Pre-Course Survey
- Reading: The Critical Role of Community Health Centers in Healthcare Delivery
- Reading: The Community Health Center Model
- Reading: Up Next: An Interview with Ricardo Guzman
- Video: Sustaining Community Health Centers with Ricardo Guzman
- Discussion Prompt: Reflection: CHASS Community Health in Detroit Discussion
- Reading: Module 1 Optional Resources
Module 2: Anti-Discrimination Health Laws and Policies
- Reading: Civil Rights and Hospital Integration
- Reading: Challenges to Reducing Discrimination and Health Inequity Through Existing Civil Rights Laws
- Reading: Mechanisms for Disciplinary Action
- Reading: Patient Dumping
- Reading: Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA): Opportunities and Challenges
- Reading: Module 2 Optional Resources
- Graded: Lesson Quiz: The Civil Rights Act and Anti-Discrimination
- Graded: Lesson Quiz: Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)
Module 3: Provider Interventions to Reduce Differential Care
- Reading: The Evidence on Race Concordance
- Video: Is it Cultural Competence or Cultural Humility?
- Reading: Differences Between Anti-Discrimination Laws, Patient Preference, and Race Concordance
- Reading: Introduction to Specific Provider Interventions
- Reading: Does Diversity Training Work?
- Reading: Up Next: An Interview with Dr. David Brown
- Video: Diversifying the Healthcare Workforce: What It Is and Why It Matters with David Brown
- Reading: Health Systems and Accommodating Patient Preference
- Discussion Prompt: Reflection: Appraising Provider Interventions
- Reading: Intervention to Address Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Healthcare Assignment
- Reading: Intervention to Address Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Healthcare Assignment: General Feedback
- Reading: Module 3 Optional Resources
- Graded: Lesson Quiz: Foundations of Provider Interventions
- Graded: Submit Your Intervention to Address Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Healthcare Assignment
- Graded: Intervention to Address Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Healthcare Assignment Check
Module 4: Improving Quality and Access in Healthcare
- Reading: What is Quality Improvement?
- Reading: Collecting Race/Ethnicity Data to Drive Quality Improvement
- Reading: Quality Improvement and Equity
- Reading: Introduction to Examples of Improving Quality and Access in Health Systems
- Reading: Community Health Workers: A Timeline
- Reading: Community Health Workers in Improving Quality of Care
- Discussion Prompt: Reflection: Quality Improvement in Health Systems
- Reading: Introduction to Community Benefit
- Reading: Community Benefit: Past and Future
- Reading: Reporting Requirements: Outcomes vs. Monetary
- Reading: Module 4 Optional Resources
- Graded: Lesson Quiz: Introduction to Quality Improvement and Using Data
- Graded: Lesson Quiz: Community Benefit
Module 5: Anti-Racism and Reparations in Healthcare
- Reading: What Are Reparations and Why Do They Matter?
- Reading: History of Reparations in the United States
- Reading: Reparations: Key Issues
- Reading: Presidential Apology for Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- Reading: Reparations: HELA Cells and Henrietta Lacks
- Reading: American Medical Association Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity
- Discussion Prompt: Reflection: What Do Reparations Look Like In Your Context?
- Reading: Critical Race Theory: What It Really Is and What It Is Not
- Reading: Anti-Racism Framework
- Reading: Anti-Racism and Healthcare
- Reading: Building an Antiracist Workplace
- Reading: Module 5 Optional Resources
- Video: Conclusion: Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare Specialization
- Reading: Post-Course and Specialization Survey
- Graded: Lesson Quiz: Reparations in Healthcare
- Graded: Lesson Quiz: Antiracism in Healthcare
Grading Policy
To pass the course, learners must earn an overall score of 80% or higher. Each graded quiz and the Intervention to Address Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Healthcare assignment also requires a minimum score of 80%. Quizzes allow two attempts every four hours. Discussion prompts are ungraded.
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Intermediate Level
Some related experience required
