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Achieving Health Equity: Making the Business Case, Focus on Women's Health

Program Date & Time:
July 1, 2021 | Self-paced
Modality:
  • Online module
Registration Fee:
Free
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Additional Details
Instructional Hours:
1.00
Didactic Hours (AHEC Scholars):
1.00
Experiential Hours (AHEC Scholars):
0.00
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Presenter(s)
Description
This course will explore the ways in which health and healthcare disparities impact cost, risk management, safety and quality. Establishing the business case for health equity, especially in women’s health, will allow the learner to understand the personal value of finding solutions for this complicated endemic issue. This program is brought to you in partnership with New Morning Foundation, a non-profit founded to reduce unintended pregnancy within a generations time. Choose Well is the initiative to accomplish this goal. In South Carolina approximately 50% of all pregnancies are unintended. Unintended pregnancies cost almost $79 million per year The average cost of providing birth control to a woman is about $250. The average cost of a baby born on MediCaid is $13,000. CME Release date July 1, 2021; expiration date July 1, 2024

Keywords: health equity women's health

Objectives

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Discern the differences between equity, equality and disparity
  • Learn three ways disparities impact cost
  • Learn three ways disparities impact risk management
  • Determine how the healthcare system contributes to health inequity
  • Give three solutions for reducing inequities
  • Understand the metrics necessary to assess disparities
Disclosures
In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education anyone involved in planning or presenting this educational activity will be required to disclose any financial relationships with any ineligible companies. An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. This information is listed below. Any financial relationships with these ineligible companies have been mitigated by the MUSC Office of CME. Speakers who incorporate information about off-label or investigational use of drugs or devices will be asked to disclose that information at the beginning of their presentation. The Activity Director, planners and presenters of this enduring activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Mid-Carolina AHEC. The Medical University of South Carolina is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credits Available
  • Registered Nurses
    SC Nurses Association
    Credit Statement

    Mid-Carolina AHEC is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by South Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

    This nursing continuing education activity approval # 1811-032PR-403 has been approved for 1.0 hours.

  • Physicians
    Medical University of South Carolina Office of CME
    Credit Statement
    The Medical University of South Carolina designates this enduring material for 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • Non-MD/DO Providers That Require CME Certified Programs
    Medical University of South Carolina Office of CME
    Credit Statement
    The Medical University of South Carolina designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • SC AHEC Scholars
    Area Health Education Consortium Student
    Credit Statement
    Participation recognition only: This 1 hour(s) program is presented by SC AHEC.
  • Health Professions Students
    Area Health Education Consortium Student
    Credit Statement
    Participation recognition only: This 1 hour(s) program is presented by SC AHEC.
  • All Other Participants
    Area Health Education Consortium
    Credit Statement
    Participation recognition only: This 1 hour(s) program is presented by SC AHEC.
  • AHEC CE
    Area Health Education Consortium
    Credit Statement
    This program provides 0.1 CEUs by Mid-Carolina AHEC and meets South Carolina AHEC Best Practice Standards.
Locations/Participation Options
  • Online Module
Contact(s)

If you have questions, please contact ofte@musc.edu.


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