Event date: 2/28/2025 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Export event Kyle Northam / Monday, November 25, 2024 / Categories: Uncategorized Racial Equity: Creating a Healthier Country for All NASW WI Chapter Webinar WEBINAR: Racial Equity: Creating a Healthier Country for All February 28, 2025 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Presented by Fran Kaplan, MSW, EdD Residents of the United States have some of the poorest health and shortest life expectancies of all the richest, industrialized countries. Despite having the world’s highest GDP, a high percentage of US babies die in their first year of life. We spend almost half of all healthcare dollars in the world, so why do we have such poor outcomes? In this webinar, attendees will learn how racism and similar social inequities impact the health of individuals and communities and how social workers can help to prevent and treat these societal inequities. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will expand their understanding of racism as a detrimental & costly systemic (social) determinant of health in the US. Learn how successful equity campaigns can & do make our lives healthier by moving us beyond long-standing but out-moded, unhealthy, even dangerous, practices. Increase their desire for & ability to work towards health & equity as social workers 2 Continuing education hours REGISTER COST Members - $50 Student/Retired Members - $40 Non-Members - $70 Previous Article Mental Health Advocacy in the Hmong Community Next Article Termination Ethics Forum Print 76 Tags: racial equity