Global Diversity High Impact Practice F 2022
HA 100 Foundations of Massage Therapy – Global Diversity Project
Global Diversity Project: Health Care Disparities and Implicit Bias
What you will do:
– Look into concepts of Health disparities, Healthcare Disparities, Implicit Bias
– Watch three videos provided
– Answer related questions
Video I – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVwgnp3dAc
Student question: For our first video, can you tell the difference between Health disparities and Health care disparities? Give three examples for each.
Video II – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H6yte4RXx0
Student question: Look at different zip codes in New York, to see the differences between health care outcomes? What are causative factors and what can we do to create change?
Video III- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mudlev9tTIY
Student question: What is implicit bias? Other than race and ethnicity what factors can play a role in implicit bias? Can we have biases that can affect our treatments as health care practitioners? If you like to check your biases, please go to Project Implicit: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Second step of the assignment: You will be writing one page paper answering the following reflection questions. Papers should be typed, and submitted online in the assignment section.
(1) What is health care disparities and what are some causative factors?
(2) Can these causative factors also play a role in our clinical setting? If so how can we reduce these effects?
(3) Can we identify our biases, and will that help us in clinical setting?