Module 5 Flashcards
What is Health Equity
Having the personal agency and fair access to resources and opportunities needed to achieve the best possible physical, emotional, and social well-being
What are health inequities
Systematic and preventable differences in health outcomes, closely linked to social, economic, and environmental conditions
What are the three foundational concepts that underly the health equity framework?
Equity is at the core of health outcomes
Multiple, interacting spheres of influence
Historical, life-course perspective
What are the four spheres of influence included in the HEF under “multiple, interactive spheres of influence”?
Systems of power
Relationships and networks
Individual factors
Physiological pathways
What are the PRESS stages to effective interventions
Problem awareness
Root-cause analysis
Empathy
Strategies for addressing the problem
Sacrifice - a willingness to put resources and time to solving the problem
Strategies to drive change include three categories of activity
- personal attitudes
- informal cultural norms
- formal institutional policies
What are the 6 steps outlined by the RWJF to address health disparities
- Recognize disparities and commit to reducing them
- Implement a basic quality improvement structure
- Make equity an integral part of quality improvement
- Design interventions
- Implement and evaluate interventions
- Sustain interventions
What were the cross-cutting themes shared by effective interventions that address health inequities?
Multi-factoral
Culturally tailored
Multi disciplinary teams
Interactive educational tools/approaches
Patient navigation that actively involved family and community members
What are the 6 levels of Interventional Influence
Patient - change the knowledge or behaviors
Provider - change the knowledge or behaviors
Microsystems - and new members or shift responsibilities across the care team
Organization - change organizational operations
Community - work with organizations outside the traditional healthcare setting
Policy - influence laws, policy, and resource allocation
Consensus Leadership
A leadership model that provides stakeholder input into decision making prior to developing a strategy or plan that impacts the stakeholders. This mode of leadership places high value on inclusion as a method to secure buy-in and commitment to the decision
Disruptive Innovation
The introduction of a product or service into an established industry that performs better and, generally, at a lower cost that existing offerings, thereby displacing the market leaders in that particular market space and transforming the industry.
Diversity
Individuals from a range of different social, racial, and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders and sexual orientations
Equity
To provide fair treatment, access, equality of opportunity and advancement for everyone while also attempting to identify and remove the barriers that have prevented some groups from fully participating. Equity promoted justice, fairness, and impartiality within the processes, procedures and distribution of resources by systems or institutions. To address equity, people need to understand the root causes of outcome disparities in society.
Inclusion
Building a culture where everyone feels welcome by actively inviting every person or every group to contribute and participate
DEI Initiative
An initiative to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace
Organizational Vision
Describes the desired future position of the organization and serves as a strategic plan for success that aligns values and goals
Goals
Strategic objectives that an organization establishes to set expected performance outcomes
Strategy
A plan that specifies how the organization will allocate resources to support performance toward defines goals that align with the organizations vision
