Third Thursday Breakfast Broadcast
Third Thursday Breakfast Broadcast is a monthly satellite broadcast series on new and emerging public health issues. It is sponsored by the School of Public Health, the NYS Department of Health, the NYS Community Health Partnership, the NYS Association of County Health Officials, and the NYS Nurses Association.
Creating Health Equity Through Social Justice
Satellite broadcast originally aired February 20, 2003
- Now available via videostreaming through funding from the New York-New Jersey Public Health Training Center (This requires a “Real Media” player, which you can download free.)
- Apply for Continuing Education Credits
- Handouts
Dr. Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH, Director, Fulton Co. Department of Health and Wellness, Atlanta, GA dicusses the continued existence of health disparities related to race and socioeconomic status, which reflects a basic contradiction in American society. Equity is inextricably connected to fairness and justice. Addressing solutions to these problems is therefore a process of creating equity in health by correcting social and economic injustice and focusing on basic human rights and the triumph of social justice. with
Objectives
As a result of this program, participants will be able to:
- list at least one strategy for creating equity in health.
- describe basic statistics that convey the idea of social injustice in health status
- give at least two possible explanations of social injustice in health
Continuing Education
This Educational Activity is presented by the School of Public Health Continuing Education, which has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the New York State Nurses Association’s Council on Continuing Education, which is accredited by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. It has been approved for 1.0 contact hours and has been assigned approval code 54NLRE-PRV-02-031.
The School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for 1.0 Category One credits towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive up to xx Category I CECH in health education.
For further information, contact Cheryl Reeves, Assistant Director of Continuing Education, School of Public Health via e-mail and include "t2b2" in subject line. creeves@albany.edu
Last update: Dec. 8, 2003
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