Environmental Justice and Social Determinants of Health (20 min.)

Environmental Justice and Social Determinants of Health (20 min.)

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Historically, the healthcare field has focused a lot of attention on individual factors and actions that influence health outcomes like an individual’s diet and exercise, for example. However, public health practitioners are recognizing that many other factors influence health outcomes including social and economic status and neighborhood environment. And that’s where environmental justice and social determinants of health come into play. With supplemental videos from subject matter experts and community members, this module provides an overview of environmental justice, social determinants of health, and root causes.

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Vector image of faceless womanAlicia Fraser, DSc, MPH
Director of Environmental Epidemiology, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
 
 
 
 
This Environmental Justice and Social Determinants of Health e-learning module is part of the Environmental Health Equity and Climate Change learning series. This module is designed to be self-paced and completed in a learning management system. This module is part 2 of 7. Historically, the healthcare field has focused a lot of attention on individual factors and actions that influence health outcomes like an individual’s diet and exercise, for example. However, public health practitioners are recognizing that many other factors influence health outcomes including social and economic status and neighborhood environment. And that’s where environmental justice and social determinants of health come into play. With supplemental videos from subject matter experts and community members, this module provides an overview of environmental justice, social determinants of health, and root causes.

 

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

    1. Recognize how Environmental Justice concerns can affect health outcomes.
    2. Recognize how Social Determinants of Health can affect health outcomes.
    3. Understand how identifying root causes can help people find ways to minimize exposures and improve health outcomes.

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 0.5 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Physician Assistants
Boston Children’s Hospital has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credits for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 0.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Pharmacy
This activity carries a maximum of 0.5 contact hours. Pharmacists should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Psychology
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs. This course has been approved for 0.5 continuing education credits.

Social Work
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston Children’s Hospital is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Boston Children’s Hospital maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 0.5 ACE CE continuing education credits.

MOC II
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity, with individual assessments of the participants and feedback to the participants, enables the participant to earn:
0.5 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
0.5 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program

Disclosure Policy 
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients: 

Name, Degree Entity Name, or None
Alan Woolf, MD, MPH None
Marissa Hauptman, MD, MPH None
Meg Blanchet None
Kate Adams, ScD None
Catherine Brown, DVM, MS, MPH
Alicia Fraser, DSc, MPH None
Rachel Gladstone None
Terry Howard MA Department of Public Health – Employee
Melanie Jetter, MS None
Nalina Narain, PhD None
Shalini Shah, DO None
Mariangelí Echevarría-Ramos, MPH None
Nicole Fina None
Juan Soler Ramos None
Sarita Hudson None

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