Moving Upstream: Understanding SUD Through the Lens of Social and Health Equity

Self-Paced Program

Release Date: 7/26/21 

Expire Date: 7/22/22

Estimated time for completion: 60 minutes

This virtual educational activity is jointly provided by AXIS Medical Education and the Connecticut Hospital Association in collaboration with the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

Target Audience: Physicians, nurses, social workers, quality professionals, risk managers, healthcare executives, and all healthcare professionals working with women and families impacted by trauma and addiction.

Description: Many practitioners know what the research has long demonstrated—that social and structural factors like unemployment, housing instability, and structural racism drive poor health outcomes and inequities related to substance use disorder (SUD). And, while there have been major scientific advancements in our understanding of SUD, these racial inequities persist, largely due to these social and structural factors. But how are these social and structural drivers of health inequity related to SUD? How do they impact our approach to SUD? And how do we translate our knowledge of these factors into action and demonstrable improvements in health equity and racial justice for patients and communities experiencing high rates of SUD? Join us for an important conversation with Dr. Rishi Manchanda about Moving Upstream: Understanding SUD Through the Lens of Social and Health Equity.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be better able to:

• Describe social and structural drivers of health equity and why they matter to healthcare and improving outcomes related to substance use disorder (SUD)

• Describe the levels of action required to improve social and structural drivers of health equity for SUD

• List at least two concrete steps to help improve social and structural drivers of health equity related to SUD

Your Faculty:

Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH, is a primary care physician and public health professional who has spent his career helping to advance health equity in marginalized, resource-poor communities in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Manchanda is Founder & CEO of HealthBegins, a national mission-driven consulting and training firm that helps healthcare and community partners radically improve care, health equity, and the social and structural factors that make people sick in the first place. In his 2013 book, The Upstream Doctors, and subsequent TED talk, he introduced “upstreamists,” a new cadre of leaders who are equipped to transform healthcare’s capacity to improve the social and structural drivers of health equity. The book has become recommended reading in medical schools and universities around the world.

Prior to HealthBegins, Dr. Manchanda served as the first chief medical officer for one of America’s largest private companies, he developed and ran clinics and health programs for nearly 10,000 rural, largely immigrant workers in California’s Central Valley. Before that, he was the lead primary care physician for homeless Veterans at the Greater Los Angeles VA, where he integrated and scaled new models of care to better address patients’ medical, housing, and legal needs.

ACCREDITED CONTINUING EDUCATION

Accreditation Statement

 In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AXIS Medical Education and the Connecticut Hospital Association. AXIS Medical Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Credit Designation for Physicians

AXIS Medical Education designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Credit Designation for Nursing

AXIS Medical Education designates this continuing nursing education activity for 1.0 contact hours.

Learners are advised that accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with an activity.

Social Workers

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, AXIS Medical Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AXIS Medical Education maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credits.

Quality Professionals

This program has been approved by the National Association for Healthcare Quality for a maximum of 1 CPHQ continuing education credits for this event.

Risk Management

This meeting has been approved for a total of 1.0 contact hours of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and towards CPHRM renewal. 

Healthcare Executives

ACHE Qualified Education credit must be related to healthcare management (i.e., it cannot be clinical, inspirational, or specific to the sponsoring organization). It can be earned through educational programs conducted or sponsored by any organization qualified to provide education programming in healthcare management. Programs may be sponsored by ACHE, chapters, or other qualified sources, whether the programming is face-to-face or distance offerings (webinars, online seminars, self-study courses, etc.). You will receive a certificate of completion for 1.0 hours.

AXIS Contact Information

For information about the accreditation of this program please contact AXIS at info@axismeded.org.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

AXIS Medical Education requires faculty, instructors, authors, planners, directors, managers, reviewers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose all real or apparent conflicts of interest they may have with ineligible companies. An ineligible entity is any organization whose primary business is t producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant conflicts of interest are identified and mitigated prior to initiation of the planning phase for an activity. 

AXIS has mitigated and disclosed to learners all relevant conflicts of interest disclosed by staff, planners, faculty/authors, peer reviewers, or others in control of content for this activity. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation or activity. Disclosure information for faculty, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, and/or relevant staff is provided with this activity.

The faculty reported the following relevant financial relationships or relationships they have with ineligible companies of any amount during the past 24 months:

The directors, planners, managers and reviewers reported the following financial relationships they have with any ineligible company of any amount during the past 24 months:

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of patient conditions and possible contraindications or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

Requirements for credit:  

• Participate in the enduring educational activity and review all activity materials. 
• Complete the posttest with a score of 80 percent or higher
• Upon reaching a score of 80 percent or higher you will be emailed instructions to sign in to an electronic CE Attestation Portal.  Please engage with this portal within 30 days of activity completion.
• Upon successful completion of the portal process your statement of completion will be presented to you for printing.