Racial Inequalities in Healthcare: Part 2 Units 5-8

This course is the second part of Racial Inequalities in Healthcare, containing Units 5-8. 

We are often unaware of the history behind our perceptions of each other that are both conscious and unconscious thoughts. Many of these ideas and preconceptions are informal knowledge that originate from white supremacist ideology. White supremacist ideology has gone through a long historical process many people are not aware of. These ideas have a strong influence on how we think about healthcare, disease, and each other. This training will cover history that influences our current problems with racial disparity in the health care system. The issues that are addressed in this training may be quite a lot, but it is a fraction of many issues that persist.

The course Racial Inequality in Healthcare is about uncovering and discovering the historical and more recent racial disparities in healthcare. Learning about the past is relevant to our awareness and sensitivity to communities of color in the present.  We need to be aware about what people have been capable of doing to others in the name of medicine. We need to know the thought and ideology that has led to those actions. We also need to be able to identify the actions and how they happened.  All to make us more aware of how people of color experience issues of health unequally.

Participants can register for the full Part 2 course or for single course units. 

Intended Audience: This course is appropriate for anyone seeking to develop a framework of knowledge regarding racism in healthcare and the ideologies and frameworks which behind racial inequalities in healthcare.

Professionals in any field and the general public are welcome. 5.5 CEUs available.

Trigger Warning- This course discusses abuse and sexual assault.

Course Units:

Unit 5 Racial Disparity In Addressing drug abuse:  the criminal approach vs. the Healthcare approach- 1 CEU

Objective 1: Identify the relationship between social narratives (19th century  ideas about race) and public policy/laws, specifically related to drug use.

Objective 2:  Identify ways the enforcement of Prohibition targeted various groups of people that were viewed as racially inferior.

Objective 3: Learn about ways that anti- Cannabis laws in the 1930s targeted people of color.

Objective 4: Examine ways that the war on drugs was implemented as a deterrent to keep communities of color from organizing.

Objective 5: Analyze the impact of narratives surrounding race on treatment of drug abuse as a disease vs. a crime.

Unit 6: Immigration, Disease, and the specter of Fear- 1 CEU

Objective 1: Discuss the use of public health concerns as  reasoning for dehumanizing immigration policy and lack of care.

Objective 2:  Learn about Nativism and the impact of this perspective on immigrants.

Objective 3: Examine the use of stereotypes and propaganda as justification for the 1917 gas baths of El Paso.

Objective 4:  Learn about Title 42 and the use of public health to halt the asylum system.

Unit 7  Medical Neglect of Migrant Children in Detention- 1.75 CEUs

Objective 1: Learn about how the health of migrant children in detention is impacted by racial disparities in healthcare and by stereotypes of migrants.

Objective 2: Discuss the lack of medical resources for migrant children in detention.

Objective 3: Learn about the Flores Settlement Agreement and its impact

Objective 4: Identify the different types of detention facilities that hold migrant children

Objective 5: Discuss the delay in healthcare for migrant children and identify the impact of that delay.

Unit 8  Racial Disparity In The Time of COVID-19- 1.75 CEUs

Objective 1: Learn about how the failings of the healthcare system have left people of color more vulnerable to COVID.

Objective 2: Learn how efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID  were purposely impeded in communities of color.

Objective 3: Identify the impact of pervasive narratives regarding immigration and disease on the AAPI community during the COVID 19 period.