{"id":35287,"date":"2022-08-29T20:10:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T20:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=35287"},"modified":"2022-08-29T20:10:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T20:10:29","slug":"health-outcomes-assembly-brings-together-health-care-education-and-nonprofits-to-reflect-and-strategize-on-health-disparities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/health-outcomes-assembly-brings-together-health-care-education-and-nonprofits-to-reflect-and-strategize-on-health-disparities\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Outcomes Assembly brings together health care, education and nonprofits to reflect and strategize on health disparities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Does everyone in Kansas have the same access to health care? And if not, how are these health disparities eliminated so that people living the state can have healthier lives?<\/p>\n

That was the question posed by the 2nd<\/sup> Annual Health Outcomes Assembly, a teleconference on Aug. 26 hosted by The University of Kansas Health System<\/a> and the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion<\/a> at the University of Kansas Medical Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started this important initiative last year to unpack health care disparities\u2019 effects in marginalized communities,\u201d explained Jerrihlyn McGee, DNP, vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion. \u201cThis year, we\u2019re focusing on health disparities between counties and ZIP codes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pinpointing where disparities exist<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Such small geographic areas offer a wealth of comparative data and pinpoint not only where health challenges exist but also the depth of the challenges. However, as one moderator pointed out, researchers should not focus on micro-elements of data without remembering that those ZIP codes are representative of the people who live within them.<\/p>\n

\u201cZIP codes are a great way to talk about the data. But what we\u2019re missing when we talk about ZIP codes are people. People live in these neighborhoods, and neighbors go door-to-door to have conversations about what matters to them,\u201d said Matt Kleinmann, program manager with the Wyandotte County Health Equity Task Force (HETF).<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that\u2019s what comes through in our panel today: that the approach of improving health equity really does happen in our neighborhoods,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

HETF was developed by community activists, civic leaders and the faith community of the county with a push from a KU Medical Center grant program called RADx-UP. That grant\u2019s goal was to increase COVID-19 vaccinations in marginalized areas of the state. The task force\u2019s purpose has expanded to include other health issues facing Wyandotte County\u2019s underserved residents.<\/p>\n

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During the teleconference a team from Kansas Governor Laura Kelly\u2019s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice presented their goals and accomplishments regarding health disparities in Kansas. Shannon Portillo, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas, is co-chair of the commission. She explained how the group was established in 2020 in the wake of the protests spurred by the death of George Floyd and racial injustice within the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Governor Kelly) asked us to look not just at criminal justice reforms but reforming all of the systems in Kansas,\u201d Portillo said. For the last year, she indicated, the commission has been examining the social determinants of health \u2013 factors such as economic stability, quality of education and access to health care that ultimately affect one\u2019s health. The report of their recommendations<\/a> is available on the governor\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Efforts at KU Medical Center <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Faculty from KU Medical Center and practitioners from The University of Kansas Health System also contributed to the Health Outcomes Assembly. Along with the other assembly participants, they shed light on the history of health disparities in our region and the promise for hope, cooperation and funding to improve these disparities in the future.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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For example, Jason E. Glenn, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine<\/a> at KU School of Medicine, explained the REPAIR (REParations and Anti-Institutional Racism) Project<\/a>, an initiative that KU Medical Center used as a framework for anti-racism efforts and curriculum development. The REPAIR Project has four pillars<\/a>, and one is to educate the next generation on how racism has been perpetuated in medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose legacies of racism that exist in our curriculum and in our teachings — get rid of those and replace them with curriculum that is aimed at making our learners and our faculty and staff structurally competent in all the social and structural determinants of health that we’ve been talking about here this morning,\u201d Glenn said.<\/p>\n

The efforts many more clinicians and researchers concerned with health disparity also were outlined in the 2022 Health Outcomes Assembly.<\/p>\n

Abiodun Akinwuntan, Ph.D., MPH, MBA, dean of KU School of Health Professions, stressed the importance of KU Medical Center and the health system to the issue of health disparity.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an academic institution that trains majority of the health care providers in the state of Kansas, we should make it one of our obligations to train health care professionals, who are sensitive to all these issues all around us,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen they become practitioners, they do not become propagators of the same problem, but rather a positive solution in a positive direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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