TA 102: Improving Health Equity
TA 102: Improving Health Equity
Note: This course is available as an individual course and in select subscription plans.
Overview
This three-lesson course will explore health disparities — what they are, why they occur, and how you can help reduce them in your local setting. After discussing the current (and alarming) picture, we’ll learn about some of the promising work that is reducing disparities in health and health care around the world. Then, we’ll suggest how you can start improving health equity in your health system and community.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Recognize at least two causes of health disparities in the US and around the world.
- Describe at least three initiatives to reduce disparities in health and health care.
- Identify several ways you can help reduce health disparities.
Lessons
- Lesson 1: Understanding Health Disparities
This lesson uses statistics and videos of experts to highlight disparities in health care and health — and to consider what’s causing these gaps to widen among populations.
- Lesson 2: How Health Care Can Advance Health Equity
In this lesson, it’s time to examine work that is reducing inequities by better serving people with poor health and inadequate health care. We’ll introduce IHI’s Framework for Health Care Organizations to Achieve Health Equity and give examples of organizations pursuing equity by taking a tour of several successful initiatives. Finally, it’s your turn. You have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of patients and their communities.
- Lesson 3: Your Role in Improving Health Equity
In the final lesson, we offer several strategies for getting started.
Estimated Time of Completion: 2 Hours
Continuing Education Credits
Course completion typically earns 1.5 Continuing Education credits. Please read the full details to ensure that this course offers your desired credit type. Learn more about Continuing Education credits
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Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.5 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the health care team.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 1.5 credits for nurses and pharmacists. This activity is approved to award 1.5 credits toward Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) recertification.
This activity/program is approved by NAHQ® for 1.5 CPHQ CE credits.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement 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. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 general continuing education credits.
By attending TA 102 offered by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement participants may earn up to 1.5 ACHE Qualifying Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation.
Subscriptions
This course is available in the following IHI Open School subscriptions: