Training and Learning Modules
Education is an important element when incorporating health equity into your organization and to ensure sustainability. We have curated high-value resources to train and educate your staff regarding the importance of health equity and addressing health disparities.
Infographics
Visualizing Health Equity: One Size Does Not Fit All — Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Using Z-Codes: The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Data Journey to Better Outcomes — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Health Equity Infographics — Health Equity Institute, San Francisco State University
- The Economic Burden of Racial, Ethnic, and Educational Health Disparities in the United States, 2018 (PDF) — NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Considered most valuable resource
Links to Webinars
- Health Equity Webinars — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Examining Best Practices for Equitable Maternal Care Replay — American Hospital Association
- Introducing the Social Determinants of Health in Rural Communities Toolkit — Rural Health Information (RHI) Hub
- Maternal and Obstetric Care Challenges in Rural America from the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services — RHIHub
- Rural Maternal Health Networks: Evaluation Findings from the First Implementation Year of the RMOMS 2019 Cohort — RHIHub
Training
My Diverse Patients — Videos with a goal of expanding the way clinicians think about health care to ensure more people have the opportunity to make the choices that lead to healthy, longer lives, regardless of their diverse backgrounds
- Achieving Health Equity — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicare Learning Network
- Implicit Association Tests — Project Implicit
Considered most valuable resource
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A program of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Definitions
Health disparity
inequities in the quality of health, health care, and health outcomes experienced by groups based on social, racial, ethnic, economic, and environmental characteristics
Health equity
the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health
Health-related social needs (HRSN)
an individual’s unmet, adverse social conditions (e.g., housing instability, homelessness, nutrition insecurity) that contribute to poor health and are a result of underlying social drivers of health (SDOH)
Social drivers of health (SDOH)
also known as “social determinants of health,” the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age that are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources and impacted by factors such as institutional bias, discrimination, racism, and more
Resources are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by KFMC or its partners.
