2025 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Annual Conference

The program will define the Social Justice Model and its relevance to healthcare. Social Justice model offers a framework for addressing inequities in healthcare and promotes health equity for all patients regardless of their cultural background or socioeconomic status. By examining the intersections of race, class, gender, and other social determinants of health, we will uncover how systemic inequities impact the five principles of the social justice model: access, equity, participation, diversity, and human rights. The five principles of the Social Justice can transform healthcare delivery, ensuring equitable access and outcomes for all. Social Justice in healthcare is about ensuring that everyone can live a healthy life and receive high-quality care regardless of their background or circumstances. As a society, we are responsible for our responsiveness to the systemic inequities in healthcare and improving the experience of our patients.

Objectives:

1. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the principles of a Social Justice Model as a method for identifying inequity and bias healthcare.
2. Identifying the barriers to applying the five principles of the Social Justice Model.
3. Examining the issues of health inequity for an under-resourced or marginalized population.
4. How can we as a community promote, support, and apply the Social Justice Model in healthcare.