Mind the Gap: How college health services can use assessment to identify health disparities, health inequities, and barriers to accessing care

Program Information

Description

This session will focus on several research methods used to identify health inequities and barriers to accessing healthcare on college campuses. Sample studies and results will be highlighted, along with strategies for addressing identified barriers to access.

This webinar is being conducted by the ACHA Administration Section. Software support for this webinar series is made possible through the generous support of the American College Health Foundation.

Intended Audience

• Administrators
• Advanced Practice Clinicians
• Dietitian/Nutritionist
• Health Educators
• Health Information Management Professionals
• Mental Health Professionals
• Nurses
• Pharmacists
• Physicians
• Psychiatrists
• Students

Learning Objectives

The participants should be able to:

1. Identify quantitative measures for determining health inequities.
2. Identify qualitative measures for determining health inequities.
3. Discuss strategies for using data to reduce identified barriers to access and create health equity on college campuses.

Faculty

Susan Hochman, MPH, CHES
The University of Texas at Austin

Program Planning Committee

Resolution of Potential Conflicts of Interest — Program Planning Committee:
Program Planning Committee members have completed conflict of interest statements regarding relationships with commercial entities. Each of the Program Planning Committee members have reported no relevant financial conflicts of interest.

Jamie Shutter, MSEd, CHES
The University of Texas at Austin

Eleanor Davidson, MD
Case Western Reserve University

Michael Malmon, PhD
Metropolitan State University Denver

Kathy Saichuk, MA, MCHES
Louisiana State University

Fees

There is no fee for viewing the webinar.

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Instructions for Obtaining Credit

It is estimated that it will require one hour to view the webinar and complete the post-test and evaluation. (You will be asked to identify the type of credit you are requesting when you take the post-test.)

Step 1: View the archived webinar [see above].

Step 2: Complete the Post-test and Evaluation Form.

Statements and Disclosures

Accreditation

• The American College Health Association (ACHA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  
  ACHA designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


• Sponsored by ACHA, a designated provider of continuing education content hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designed for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.0 total Category 1 continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level contact hours available are 1.0.

Policy on Continuing Education Post-Tests

It is the policy of the American College Health Association that when a post-test is required upon completion of a continuing education activity, participants must receive a passing grade of 80%. If participants receive a grade lower than 80%, they will be given the opportunity to re-take the post-test one time. If they receive 80% or higher the second time, they will be awarded continuing education credits/contact hours for the activity. We encourage participants to complete the post-test and evaluation form immediately after viewing the download. Those with a passing grade of 80% on the post-test will receive their CE certificate electronically within two weeks.

Conflicts of Interest

A conflict of interest occurs when an individual has an opportunity to affect educational content about health-care products or services of a commercial company with which she/he has a financial relationship.

The planners and presenters of this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies pertaining to this activity.

Off-Label Product Use

This educational activity does not include any unannounced information about off-label use of a product for a purpose other than that for which it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).