Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Social Determinants of Health: What Is Your Role?
BMJ and Institute of Health Equity
This course explored health inequalities and how they are socially driven. It looked at how health is affected by wider determinants and how individuals can make a difference as health professionals to close the health inequality gap. Through a range of case studies from high to low income countries, the course looked at social determinants of health, why health inequalities exist, and the role of health professionals and systems in reducing health inequality.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Director
Institute of Health Equity
Dr Dean Jenkins FRCP
BMJ
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe health inequalities and the social determinants of health.
- Explore the Framework from the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health.
- Classify potential actions to reduce health inequalities according to their social context.
- Debate the role of the health care professional in addressing the social determinants of health.
- Describe case studies of individuals, organisations, and national programmes to reduce health inequalities.
- Investigate data tools to identify health gaps.
Syllabus
What are health inequalities and the social determinants of health?
Framework from the Commission on the social determinants of health
The role of Health professionals
Understanding the issue, monitoring health inequality and working with individuals and communities.
- Education and training
- Building the evidence: monitoring and evaluation
- The clinical setting: working with individuals and communities
The health system as an employer; partnerships and advocacy
- Health system roles: as employers, managers and commissioners
- Working in partnership: within the health sector and beyond
- Advocating for change: for the patient, community and health system
Issued on 4th March 2019
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