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2024 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum (CHEF) ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

The 2024 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum annual conference will explore healthcare equity, focusing on difficult ethical challenges and solutions that advance the fair and just delivery of healthcare to under-served and underrepresented populations. Addressing healthcare disparities requires a multi-faceted approach, including policy changes, increased cultural humility in healthcare delivery, improved access to education and preventive services, and efforts to address health-related social needs. Identifying and recognizing the interconnected nature of these disparities will allow providers to work towards equitable healthcare for all people in a manner that aligns with professional and institutional values.

Objectives:

Participants will increase their understanding of ethical problems and solutions concerning healthcare equity, including but not limited to ethical issues arising from:
a. economic barriers to accessing health services and healthcare insurance;
b. racial, cultural, and linguistic bias and discrimination in healthcare;
c. gender bias and discrimination in healthcare;
d. citizenship and nationality bias and discrimination in healthcare;
e. ability-related bias and discrimination in healthcare.
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The Ethical Duty to Reduce Health Disparities
Tuesday February 11, 2025 8:10am - 9:00am MST
Cambridge Room
This program explores the idea that reducing health disparities is an ethical duty for both individuals and organizations in the healthcare space, including policymakers. This duty is rooted in ethical principles like justice, beneficence, and social responsibility, as well as in the recognition that all individuals have an inherent right to attain the highest level of health possible, in line with their human dignity.

Recognizing the profound impact health disparities have on individuals and communities, creates an imperative for healthcare providers, institutions, policymakers, and society to actively address and mitigate these disparities.

Objectives:

1. Engage in reflection about privilege and biases
2. Explain what health disparities are and their root causes
3. Frame the concept of health disparities within various ethical principles
4. Discuss general approaches to addressing health disparities
5. Consider challenges to addressing health disparities
6. Develop one action item to reduce health disparities in their particular work or social setting
Speakers
avatar for Maria Milagros Kneusel Rivera, RN, DNP, MSHCE, MSN Ed, CMGT-BC

Maria Milagros Kneusel Rivera, RN, DNP, MSHCE, MSN Ed, CMGT-BC

Equity and Inclusion Director, Common Spirit
Maria Milagros Kneusel Rivera (She/Her/Hers), is a Registered Nurse with a passion for ensuring the dignified care of underrepresented populations. She has a Masters in healthcare ethics from Creighton University and a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Duquesne University.Maria is... Read More →
Tuesday February 11, 2025 8:10am - 9:00am MST
Cambridge Room
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