Series of Seminars by American Guest Lecturer on Health Equity

This seminar series explores the history of health disparities, the successes and challenges faced by public health practitioners over the years, and the current trends in health disparities and health equity in Latvia, and the United States.

Attendees will learn the history of health disparities, and have a broad-based perspective on health equity, and better understand the critical issues health disparities research, the literature, and application. This seminar series is intended to be in accordance with the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset.

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The seminars are intended for public health specialists, anyone involved in the social sciences, researchers, students from all levels, and anyone interested in health equity.

Educational Objectives

The overall objective of the course is to provide focused instruction in the principles and applications of health disparities research, with an overall goal of integrating the science, practice and policy of eliminating health disparities. The course will adopt a broad perspective on the concepts, methods, current issues, and applications related to this field.

Upon completion of this seminar series learners will have the tools to:

• Understand the history of health disparities and identify priorities for the elimination of health disparities.
• Adopt a broad-based perspective on current health disparities research and critically analyze issues pertaining to gathering and interpretation of data, measurement methods, and resource utilization.
• Enhance professional background and learning skills to include critical appraisal of the literature focused on understanding and addressing health disparities.

Seminar Structure & Discussion

Each seminar is timed to follow a 40-minute presentation, then 20-minutes for questions and discussion. Each seminar is structured with an introduction, learning objectives, a section for definitions and concepts, then also pre-determined discussion questions to help facilitate engagement if necessary. Each participate is provided with an outline, the discussion questions, and Bibliography with additional resources for independent study, as well as my contact information.

Each seminar will follow the below outline: 

• Introduction
• Objectives
• Concepts & Definitions
• Presentation
• Conclusion
• Just for Fun (Discussion)
• Discussion
• Food for Thought (Future Study)

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