Justice is Part of the Job: Understanding the Social Forces that Affect Health in the Southwest Parishes Region
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Recorded
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Identify three social forces linked to health disparities.
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Explain three biological processes that transform social differences into health disparities.
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Demonstrate why agency bias is a flawed approach to healthcare.
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Apply a structural competence framework to healthcare with stigmatized individuals.
Educational Goal
The educational goal of this workshop is to identify how social inequalities impact health.
Description
This presentation introduces the biological bridge that links social differences to health disparities and explores how those social differences result from a long history of policy choices that deliberately left racial and ethnic minorities at a disadvantage. The first part of the presentation explores how social inequality produces a stress response that produces diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and stroke. The second part explores the lives and family histories of two children who inherit social inequalities that produce different health outcomes. This presentation will focus on the Southwest Parishes region of Louisiana.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Medical Doctor
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Dr. Kendra G. Hotz is the Robert R. Waller Chair of Population Health and Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Rhodes College. She is the inaugural director of the Institute for Health Equity and Community Justice at Rhodes College, which creates customized health equity curricula for healthcare systems, managed care organizations, medical schools, and graduate medical education programs. Dr. Hotz has authored or co-authored four books as well as several articles and chapters. Her research focuses on the relationship between social inequalities and health. Dr. Hotz has been named a Faculty-in-Residence at The Center for Bioethics and Health Equity at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital. She lives in downtown Memphis with her spouse Matt Mathews, a fine art photographer. She is an enthusiastic bike commuter and loves everything about dogs.
Financially Sponsored By
- Humana Healthy Horizons in Louisiana
- Louisiana Healthcare Connections
- UnitedHealthcare Community Plan- Louisiana
- Healthy Blue Louisiana