'African American Health Disparities Interactive Module' is a tutorial on the origins and 2007 statistics on the health disparities between black and white Americans. Module components include describing complex social, political and health factors contributing to the disparity as well as concrete steps to decrease the current health disparities. This is an interactive module that includes links to related information, immediate feedback quizzes, and learning assignments. The authors describe the content as "written from a nursing perspective" but can be applied to many areas.
Type of Material:
This module is a tutorial.
Recommended Uses:
This tutorial could be used as a teaching tool in any healthcare course looking at historical perspectives pertaining to health disparities within the United States. This would be good review in preparation for class discussion.
Technical Requirements:
This tutorial requires an Adobe Flash Player. Google Chrome was used to review this learning module. It can be viewed with other popular web browsers, too.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Learning objectives identified in this interactive tutorial are:
Name key health disparities between blacks and whites in the United States;
Identify the historical origins of those disparities that exist between Blacks and Whites in the United States;
Describe the social, political and health factors that account for the persistence of health disparities between Blacks and Whites;
Describe how racism is institutionalized in the health care system, including nursing;
Describe several concrete steps individuals can take to combat racism and decrease health disparities among African Americans.
Target Student Population:
This tutorial would be appropriate for undergraduate lower level general health courses, upper level undergraduate health education courses as well as graduate courses in the healthcare field. This tutorial would also be appropriate for professional working in the healthcare field.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
There are no pre-requisites.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
The 'African American Health Disparities Interactive Module' contains detailed information on health disparities in the United States between blacks and whites and is a very well organized tutorial. This tutorial contains easy to follow, detailed information that links to relevant information to assist the learner in following the historical perspective as well as the current role of the health care system in the U.S.
Concerns:
Updated health statistics need to be included to bring this tutorial 'up-to-date' with 2013 healthcare information.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
This tutorial contains "Test Your Understanding' quizzes that provide immediate feedback, lots of interactive activities which engage and assist the learner in processing the information, and multiple links that provide additional information to the teaching module. Images are included on each page to provide a visual cue to the learner.
Concerns:
On one of the Test Your Understanding slides, the choices are Past or Current. The user can select one or the other, when, in reality, the answer for every question is actually both. I didn't see how I could select both, so there would never be any way to totally correctly answer this quiz.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
This tutorial is extremely easy to maneuver and navigate. The learner can easily follow the lessons through each module and the site contains a progress bar at the bottom of the page to guide the learner through their progress. Each module page has large font with bold wording to illustrate key concepts, making reading the material effortless. Information markers on included to give a more detailed look at particular issues the module highlights.
Concerns:
Some links throughout the tutorial are "Not Found" and need to be redirected. The contact email is no longer a valid link and needs to be replaced. Also, links that open in the same window as the tutorial cause the learner to repeat the tutorial from the beginning after reading the opened link.
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