Health Equity: Awareness, Advocacy and Action in Family Home Visiting

This presentation will explore concepts of health equity and provide insight from relevant research to raise awareness and offer insight on how we can work towards creating a more just and equitable public health sphere. Advocating for health equity necessitates critical conversations, and presenters will explore the power of reflective practice as a tool to facilitate these discussions. To translate awareness and advocacy into tangible change, they will review real-world examples to illustrate the concrete steps required to effect change and cultivate new competencies in health equity for public health professionals.

Intended audience: Public health nurses and family home visitors working in Healthy Babies Healthy Children or Nurse-Family Partnership; community-based professionals working with pregnant individuals or families with infants or young children.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the concepts of health equity and health inequity and their relevance to health outcomes in the context of home visitation
• Recognize disparities faced by Indigenous and Black persons as they relate to access to culturally appropriate care within community-based settings including home visiting
• Identify reflective practice strategies to support supervisors as they engage in critical conversation with public health nurses or other community providers who advocate for women, birthing persons, children and their families in the home visiting setting

Presenter(s): Dr. Malinda Forsythe Carmouche

Dr. Malinda Forsythe Carmouche, DNP, MSN, RN, is a healthcare educator and consultant with over 20 years of experience in nursing education and 34 years of professional nursing experience in maternal-child, family and public health. For the last 7 years, she has provided consultation support for registered nurses and program administrators implementing the Nurse-Family Partnership Model. Malinda has worked professionally as a labour and delivery nurse, a home visitor, legal nurse consultant, nursing professor, and as a leader of a nursing program. Her greatest successes have been personal; she has been married for 31 years and has two adult children.

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies or views of Public Health Ontario, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by Public Health Ontario.

Accessibility

Public Health Ontario is committed to complying with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact 647-260-7100 or capacitybuilding@oahpp.ca.

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