Chapter 19: Potential Solutions to Reduce Health Disparities

By: Rebecca Hoelzl, Devin Lindner, Lauren Bennink, Michael Dillon, and Seara Shams

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Source: https://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/strategies2016/index.html

Objectives:

  • Discuss possible solutions to health disparities
  • Describe systems that need to change to help eliminate health disparities
  • Explain the importance of health literacy in regards to health disparities
  • Interventions that can be utilized to combat health competence

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane”

– Dr. Martin Luther King