WEBINAR: Achieving Health Equity and Improving Health Behaviors by Addressing the Social Determinants of Health

Achieving Health Equity and Improving Health Behaviors by Addressing the Social Determinants of Health

Thursday, February 22, 2018 from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. (MT)

REGISTER HERE for HRSA's two-part series to increase awareness of health equity and provide behavioral health practitioners with strategies and resources for improving health behaviors and reducing disparities in access to behavioral health care. Part One will focus on the concepts in defining health equity and social disparities in health. Part Two will provide behavioral health practitioners with strategies and resources for reducing disparities.

Objectives:

• Identify complex concepts in defining health equity and why definitions do matter.
• Identify what produces and reproduces social disparities in health and health behaviors.

Save the date of March 22, 2018, from 2 to 3:30 PM ET, for Part Two of the Behavioral Health Equity Town Hall webinar series.

For more information about Part One of the series, contact Cynthia Harne, at charne@hrsa.gov.