Section outline

  • Lecture:  Multi-level etiologies of health in diverse populations, Part 4: Health systems and health care determinants

    While the social determinants of health are key in determining who gets sick, health care access and quality is key to determining the outcome of illness.  This class will review how ethnic/racial (and other) health care disparities play out in the highly complex US health care system.  We will discuss the contributions of provider bias, health system structural inequities, and segregated care to health care disparities while also examining how fundamental assumptions about the role of the individual, family, and society play out in the care of acute and chronic illness. Finally, we will review the experience of quality improvement programs in mitigating health care disparities.

    Faculty:  Alicia Fernandez

    Location:      Mission Hall 1407

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    • Required Reading:

    • Hidden Curriculum Brooks File
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    • Fernandez Language Barriers and informed consent File
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    • executivesummary unequaltx File
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    • Unequal treatment URL
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    • Assignment:

    • Assignment for Week #4