Lauri DeRuiter-Willems, PhD
Jennifer Cannon, MS, CHES
Eastern Illinois University
A privilege walk may prove beneficial in a couple of ways. It raises your awareness of your own conditions, privilege, or marginalization. It also increases your understanding of the realities (the access or obstacles) of SDOH. Participation can generate strong emotions. Our modified privilege activity affords anonymity and privacy while still allowing students to relate SDOH to their own lives. This session will explain how SDOH and privilege are a base for studying health equity and disparities. This perspective is important to fully address health literacy. We will share our experience, the debriefing with students, and conversations about bias and racism of marginalized groups.
Objectives:
-Understand the connections of social determinants of health and privilege to health literacy concepts.
-Understand how to integrate the modified privilege activity in your own work to increase understanding of SDOH as an important component of health literacy practice.
-Be prepared to facilitate a session including a modified privilege activity and discussion of health equity, disparities, health literacy, bias, and racism.
Jennifer Cannon, MS, CHES
Eastern Illinois University
A privilege walk may prove beneficial in a couple of ways. It raises your awareness of your own conditions, privilege, or marginalization. It also increases your understanding of the realities (the access or obstacles) of SDOH. Participation can generate strong emotions. Our modified privilege activity affords anonymity and privacy while still allowing students to relate SDOH to their own lives. This session will explain how SDOH and privilege are a base for studying health equity and disparities. This perspective is important to fully address health literacy. We will share our experience, the debriefing with students, and conversations about bias and racism of marginalized groups.
Objectives:
-Understand the connections of social determinants of health and privilege to health literacy concepts.
-Understand how to integrate the modified privilege activity in your own work to increase understanding of SDOH as an important component of health literacy practice.
-Be prepared to facilitate a session including a modified privilege activity and discussion of health equity, disparities, health literacy, bias, and racism.