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SOSC 1010 - Equity and Anti-Oppression in Midwifery Care: Understanding Difference, Power, & Privilege - 2 cr.
DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the foundational concepts of equity, anti-oppression, and cultural humility in midwifery care, and to engage critical learning on how difference, power, discrimination, and privilege intersect to produce documented disparities in perinatal health outcomes and practices in the United States. Students will have the opportunity to study and explore three broad areas of cultural humility, equity and (anti)oppression practices, and their impact on maternity care through historical and current sociopolitical frameworks:
1. Social identities, racism, and privilege;
2. Health disparities, inequities, and inequalities; and
3. Cultural humility and equity care models.
Students will examine these issues through a combination of interactive discussion sessions, analytical exercises, case studies, reflexive essays, research papers, critical interactive engagement with peers via Online Discussions (OD), and a final advocacy paper. In doing so, students will acquire foundational skills necessary for the provision of culturally safe care and the actualization of anti-oppression midwifery professional practices—in commitment to equity in perinatal health for all childbearing persons.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
Analyze and differentiate between health inequities, equalities and disparities;
Theorize about difference, power, discrimination and privilege;
Describe the health and social effects of difference/discrimination and privilege/power;
Analyze social determinants of health during childbearing and across the life course;
Analyze microaggressions and how they unfold to impact health and social well-being;
Summarize historical and current sociocultural practices of institutional racism;
Theorize about systems of oppression, intersectionality and structural violence;
Critically evaluate the influence of social identities (including: race/ethnicity, maternal age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender) on health and social outcomes, healthcare practices, and embodied experiences;
Analyze and differentiate between cultural humility and cultural competency frameworks;
Critically evaluate personal implicit biases and privileges associated with certain social identities, especially white privilege;
Summarize anti-oppression and anti-racism efforts within midwifery and perinatal health;
Describe the role of allies in advancing equity and social justice;
Research inequities in perinatal health;
Compare and contrast how sociocultural variations and structural constraints impact perinatal health and the childbearing experience;
Summarize major cultural humility and equity models for care practitioners, including: the explanatory models approach and the structural competency approach;
Theorize the role of structural vulnerability in (re)producing health inequities;
Describe and implement cultural interviewing techniques in health care provision;
Locate and identify advocacy-oriented strategies for decreasing health inequities and increasing cultural humility in maternity care;
Summarize levels of racism, including individual, interpersonal, and institutional;
Theorize on action steps for advancing anti-oppression, diversity, and cultural humility practices in midwifery care/the midwifery profession;
Apply Racial Equity Impact Analysis (REIA) tools to midwifery practice;
Develop increased self-awareness for the ethical and culturally safe care of diverse clientele;
Theorize on identity development as a component of personal self-actualization and institutional (systems-level) practices
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