Training and Learning Modules
Education is an important element when incorporating health equity into your organization and to ensure sustainability. We have curated high-value resources to train and educate your staff regarding the importance of health equity and addressing health disparities.
KFMC/Partner Webinars
- Addressing Transportation Challenges in Kansas — July 31, 2024, webinar co-hosted by KFMC Health Improvement Partners, the Kansas Hospital Association, and the Community Care Network of Kansas, highlights strategies used by communities across Kansas to tackle transportation challenges and provides information about Kansas Mobility Management, a public transportation strategy sponsored by the Kansas Department of Transportation
- Webinar Resources
- Addressing SDOH in Rural Kansas Communities — April 30, 2024, webinar co-hosted by KFMC Health Improvement Partners and Kansas Healthcare Collaborative (KHC), which includes CMS regulatory requirements, data collection, best practice examples of use of community health workers, and community funding
- Webinar Resources
- Slide deck (PDF)
- Questions and Answers from webinar (PDF)
- KHC Health Equity Education Archive
- Kansas Hospital Association/KHC: Regulatory Requirements Related to Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health
- KMAP Bulletin: Community Health Worker Services
- CMS Medicare Learning Network: Health Equity Services in the 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
- Kansas Health Matters
- Webinar Resources
- Food Security in Kansas: Cross-sector Innovations — January 30, 2024, webinar co-hosted by KFMC Health Improvement Partners and the Kansas Office of Primary Care and Rural Health, a program of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, which delves into the critical issue of food security in Kansas
- Webinar Resources
- Slide deck (PDF)
- Kansas Food Source
- Food Insecurity Map
- Feeding America
- research@feedingamerica.org—Email to get access to food security statistics in Excel format
- Produce Storage Infographic (PDF) — American Heart Association
- Leah’s Pantry
- Webinar Resources
Infographics
Recognizing Health Disparities in the LGBTQI+ Community Infographic – This infographic calls attention to the unique health care challenges and barriers that members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and Two Spirit (LGBTQI+) communities face, and the work that is being done to help ensure that LGBTQI+ individuals have access to quality health care. (PDF) —Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Data with ICD-10-CM Z Codes Infographic – This infographic explains how ICD-10-CM Z codes can help improve the collection of SDOH data. It also outlines ways that collection of SDOH data can improve equity in health care delivery and research. (PDF) — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Visualizing Health Equity: One Size Does Not Fit All — Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Health Equity Infographics — Health Equity Institute, San Francisco State University
- The Economic Burden of Racial, Ethnic, and Educational Health Disparities in the United States, 2018 (PDF) — NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Considered most valuable resource
Links to Webinars
Health Equity Webinars — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Examining Best Practices for Equitable Maternal Care Replay — American Hospital Association
- Introducing the Social Determinants of Health in Rural Communities Toolkit — Rural Health Information (RHI) Hub
- Maternal and Obstetric Care Challenges in Rural America from the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services — RHIHub
Considered most valuable resource
Training
Clinical Conversations Training Program — National Institutes of Health five module series on the Social Drivers of Health
- My Diverse Patients — Elevance Health and Training Systems Design, LLC
- Screening for Social Determinants of Health — TMF Health Quality Institute
- Implicit Association Tests — Project Implicit
Considered most valuable resource
Archived Resources
- Infographics
- Using Z-Codes: The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Data Journey to Better Outcomes — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Visit our Partners
A program of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Definitions
Health disparity
inequities in the quality of health, health care, and health outcomes experienced by groups based on social, racial, ethnic, economic, and environmental characteristics
Health equity
the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health
Health-related social needs (HRSN)
an individual’s unmet, adverse social conditions (e.g., housing instability, homelessness, nutrition insecurity) that contribute to poor health and are a result of underlying social drivers of health (SDOH)
Social drivers of health (SDOH)
also known as “social determinants of health,” the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age that are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources and impacted by factors such as institutional bias, discrimination, racism, and more
Resources are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by KFMC or its partners.
