This activity will focus on disparities and discrimination that exist in health care and will provide interventions to address these inequalities. The complex ways in which race, socioeconomic status, racism, stress and health behaviors can affect physical and mental health will be discussed, as well as the need to understand implicit bias to ultimately eliminate health disparities and improve health equity.

This activity will provide the facts on maternal mortality, discuss the impact of implicit bias on these statistics and how these biases can be addressed, and review how health care providers can address these persistent racial disparities.

This activity will address the impact of SDOH for improving overall health, and also for reducing health disparities that are often rooted in social and economic disadvantages.