Web Exercises

The Office of Minority Health and Health Equity aims to accelerate the Center for Disease Control’s health impact in the U.S population and to eliminate health disparities for vulnerable populations as defined by race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, geography, gender, age, disability status, risk status related to sex and gender, and among other populations identified as at-risk for health disparities. 
  • In the Socio Economic Status section, select Social Determinants of Health, the view the video on Public Health and Homelessness.  How has the face of homelessness changed?
  • In the Age section, select Adolescent Health.  How are health disparities related to disparities in education?
  • In the Other At Risk/Vulnerable Populations section, select Immigrants & Refugees.  What are some of the ways that the CDC works with immigrant, refugee, and migrant groups to improve their health?
 
Advocating for strategies to measure effective ways to improve the health care system is an important component of achieving high-quality, comprehensive, affordable health care for all Americans.  Patient reported outcomes are one way to do this.
  • What are some of the advantages of using patient reported outcomes?
  • How is Families USA advocating for the increased use of patient reported outcomes?
  • Select Key Issues, then Health System Transformation, then Health Reform 2.0: A Call to Action.  What are the health system reform goals of this proposal?
 
Social Work Today notes that evidence based practice “is not as widespread as proponents would like and still faces resistance due to a number of factors, including a basic misunderstanding among behavioral health professionals of what evidence based practice actually is.”
  • How has the definition of evidence based practice changed?
  • What are some factors contributing to the growth of using evidence based practices?
  • What are some of the barriers to using evidence based practices?