MODULE 14: Approach to Special Populations (Last Reviewed 5/1/24)

Module Presentation

Learning Objectives

  1. Discuss why health disparities exist in patients with disabilities and those who require accommodations

  2. Discuss the medical and social models of disability, and the impact these opposing approaches can have on patient care

  3. Provide examples of strategies to deliver more equitable and culturally-sensitive care for patients with physical disabilities

  1. Define LGBTQIA+ populations

  2. Discuss factors that make these populations vulnerable

  3. Describe population-specific barriers to healthcare

  4. Share considerations in caring for these populations

  5. Outline additional avenues for educational advocacy

  1. Define the “incarcerated population”

  2. Define the “justice-involved population”

  3. Discuss factors that make these populations vulnerable before, during, and after incarceration

  4. Describe population-specific barriers to healthcare

  5. Share considerations in caring for this population

  6. Outline additional avenues for education and advocacy

  1. Define structural vulnerability

  2. Describe factors making populations vulnerable

  3. Define context-specific structural vulnerability

  4. Structural vulnerability and Social Determinants of Health

  5. Define structural competency and humility

  6. Describe how to conduct a structural analysis and create a structural differential

  7. Understand the development of structural interventions

  1. Define displaced and (im)migrant populations

  2. Describe factors that make these populations vulnerable

  3. Discuss population-specific barriers to health care

  4. Share considerations in caring for these populations 

  5. Outline additional avenues for education and advocacy

Literature Reviw

Textbooks

International Organization for Migration. Part I: The Determinants of Migrant Vulnerability. IOM Handbook on Protection and Assistance to Migrants Vulnerable to Violence, Exploitation, and Abuse

Articles

  1. Vulnerability in the Context of Migration: a Critical Overview and a New Conceptual Model (10.1007/s42087-022-00288-5)

Supplemental Materials

Sim cases/Case studies

Case study at end of ppt --  CC hand injury 27 yoM RH dominant

Assessments

Post module assessment at end of Care of Refugee & (Im)migrant Populations ppt