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ForwardConsortium Ethics: The Socioeconomic Factors that Undermine Good Health and Good Healthcare
This course will increase healthcare professionals’ awareness of the socioeconomic and structural factors that undermine health outcomes and contribute to inequities in healthcare delivery. By examining the relationships among public policy, poverty, implicit bias, patient rights, and racial disproportionality, this session aims to strengthen clinicians’ ability to recognize systemic barriers, mitigate bias in practice, and promote equitable, high-quality, and patient-centered care while safeguarding public health.
Target Audience
RNs / SW / Health Coaches / Paramedics / EMTs /Pharmacists
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, learners will be able to:
Examine the links between policies, poverty and health
Understand the effect of implicit bias of health professionals on quality healthcare
Develop practice strategies to examine patient rights, the disproportionality along race, and the potential risks to public health
TIME | CONTENT | PRESENTER |
10:00 – 10:10 | Overview of social determinants of health – how housing, education, employment, food access, transportation affect health; review policy level influences and provide case examples | John Welch |
10:10 – 10:20 | Review and discuss implicit bias and its effect on quality of care | John Welch |
10:20 – 10:30 | Overview of patient rights, & public health risks | John Welch |
10:30 – 10:50 | Clinical and organizational strategies to promote equity – case presentation and discussion | John Welch |
10:50 – 11:00 | Q&A | John Welch |
John Welch, MDIV, PhD - President of the Baptist Ministers Conference of Pittsburgh & Vicinity and Chair of the Board of Directors for the Gamaliel Network
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hour(s).
CCM CE will be provided: 1.0 CE - CCM COA will be sent via email from UPMC Health Plan nurse planner approximately 6-8 weeks following the live date of the course.
This activity is eligible for endorsed credit for UPMC Health Plan EMTs and Paramedics. Complete ETHOS course work, obtain the attendance certificate, and submit to EMS governing body for 1.0 CE credit(s).
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credit(s).
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
NOTE: Paramedic/EMT CE is approved for any activity in which ANCC (nursing CE) is approved. This is per Heather Bogdon and Christie Hempfling
Available Credit
- 1.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 1.00 ASWB
- 1.00 Attendance