Why are there racial and ethnic disparities in health in the US?

• What are two policies to improve health equity in the US? Make clear if they are policies adopted, proposed, or ones you would recommend.

REQUIRED

• Shi, L., & Singh, D. A. (2019). Delivering health care in America: A systems approach (7th ed.). Jones & Barlett Learning.
  • Chapter 11: Health Services for Special Populations

REQUIRED VIDEOS

HARVARD SCHOOL PUBLIC HEALTH LECTURES

• Register for the free Harvard course: United States Health Policy.
• Follow the links to register and enroll as a student for this course.
• Select “View Archived Course.”
• Scroll down to see a list of sessions and topics listed under each session.
• Open Session 7.2: US Public Health Policy.
• Watch the videos in Topics 1–8 under Session 7.2.

REQUIRED RESOURCES

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (May 1, 2017) What is Health Equity? Retrieved from https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2017/05/w…
• Munoz, P., Kim, M., & Chang, M. (2015). The Color of Wealth in Boston. Retrieved from https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/one-time-pubs/color-of-wealth.aspx.
• Healthy People 2020: (n.d.). Social Determinants of Health. Retrieved from: https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/social-determinants-of-health.
• Hayes, S., Riley, P., & Radley, D. (24 August, 2017). Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Care. Has the Affordable Care Act Made a Difference? The Commonwealth Fund. Retrieved from https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2017/aug/reducing-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-access-care-has..
• Derose, K., Gresenz, C., Ringel, J. (2011). Understanding Disparities in Health Care Access. Retrieved from https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0644.
  • You cannot get to the full article in Health Affairs to this reading. However, if you sign in and cut and paste the following into the search engine on the Regis College library website, after a few clicks to the FULL TEXT you will get to the full text article: Derose, K., Gresenz, C., Ringel, J. (2011). Understanding Disparities in Health Care Access.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (May 10, 2020). COVID-19 Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/racial-ethnic-disparities/index.html.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (April 19, 2021). What We Can Do To Promote Health Equity?Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/what-we-can-do.html.

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS

• Frontline: Season 2011—Episode 12: Doctor Hotspot Video (13:01 minutes). Retrieved from https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-doctor-hotspot/.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

• Almendrala, A., & Galewitz, P. (24 January 2020). Despite New Doubts: Hotspotting Help For Heavy Health Care Users Marches On. Kaiser Health News. Retrieved from https://khn.org/news/despite-new-doubts-hotspotting-help-for-heavy-health-care-users-marches-on/.
• Gwande, A. (24 January, 2011). The Hot Spotters. The New Yorker. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/01/24/the-hot-spotters.