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November 17, 2009
Public Health Journal Club
“Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener's Tale”
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Thune Seminar Rooms A & B, Health Sciences Library
Feel free to bring your lunch.
Facilitator: Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS, Community Outreach Liaison, Health Sciences
Library/Learning Resource Center and Regional Liaison of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM)
This month’s article freely available at
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=10936998)
Abstract: The author presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on 3 levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework is useful for raising new hypotheses about the basis of race-associated differences in health outcomes, as well as for designing effective interventions to eliminate those differences.
Participants should read and be prepared to discuss the article.
Registration is not required.
The Creighton University Public Health Journal Club is open to anyone interested in public health, meets regularly to discuss current issues in population-based health on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, and is led and coordinated by the Creighton University Center for Health Policy & Ethics.
Program Objectives:
- Enhance participants’ knowledge of cutting edge issues in public health, particularly those at the intersections of communities and academic health sciences centers.
- Facilitate participants’ learning about how healthcare professionals’ leadership and advocacy can improve practice aims and public health.
- Motivate innovation and development of skills healthcare professionals need for enhancing public health and eliminating disparities in health status and access to healthcare services.
- Cultivate understanding of intersections of clinical ethics, organizational goals, and health policy.