Research-to-Practice Award

Health Equity is when every person has achieved the opportunity to attain their full health potential, and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.

The healthcare we receive, genetics, behavioral factors, and social factors, all predict our health potential. But not everyone experiences healthcare in the same way, causing inequities in health outcomes. The goal of this program is to leverage health providers’ understanding of health equity and to support the implementation of health equity-oriented actions in the workplace to minimize health disparities in the communities they serve. In this program participants will explore:

• Social Determinants of Health and their impact on health disparities.
• Strategies to increase patient satisfaction, improved treatment adherence, increased communication, and decrease patient mistrust through health equity.
• Changes to patient care, provider-patient interaction, internal practices, and processes to improve health equity and outcomes.