Justice

Advancing Health Equity, Working for JUSTICE in All Communities

CONFERENCE HOME

Welcome to the 2011 CityMatCH Conference website where you can find photos, conference PowerPoint presentations, and more exciting highlights! For over 20 years, CityMatCH has been hosting an annual conference of Urban Maternal and Child Health programs and leaders. Our conferences are known for their cutting-edge maternal and child health content, in-depth skills-building sessions, and great professional camaraderie.

The goal of this year's conference was to shed light on a variety of areas of justice that most directly impact MCH, and to challenge participants to think critically about their role in actively advancing justice and health equity.

CONFERENCE THEME

This year's conference focused on the theme of JUSTICE in all communities.
Why Justice? As a nation, we have made significant progress toward achieving justice for all. However, injustices are still seen in many areas and for in many populations. Where injustice prevails, inequities in health and well-being persist and deepen. The 2011 conference shed light on a variety of areas of justice that most directly impact MCH, and challenged participants to think critically about their role in actively advancing justice and health equity.
What Kinds of Justice? The conference considered data, programs and policies in the areas of:

  • SOCIAL JUSTICE. The World Health Organization defines health as “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."  i Health begins beyond the doors of the clinic and inequities in health start elsewhere, as well. Addressing equity means addressing the structural and systemic inequalities that create disparities in health. It means fighting for social justice, not just insuring access to care for all.
  • REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE. “Reproductive justice exists when all people have the social, political, and economic power and resources to make healthy decisions about their gender, bodies, sexuality, and families for ourselves and our communities.” ii It links the concept of disparity to the concept of inequity.
  • ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. The University of Michigan states, "[Environmental justice is] the right to a safe, healthy, productive, and sustainable environment for all, where ‘environment’ is considered in its totality to include the ecological (biological), physical (natural and built), social, political, aesthetic, and economic environments. Environmental justice refers to the conditions in which such a right can be freely exercised, whereby individual and group identities, needs, and dignities are preserved, fulfilled, and respected in a way that provides for self-actualization and personal and community empowerment." It goes on to state that, "Providing environmental justice includes a guarantee of equal access to relief and meaningful community participation with government and industry decision-makers.” iii
  • ECONOMIC JUSTICE. In the documentary series Unnatural Causes we learn, "The wealthiest people have the most access to power, resources and opportunity–and thus the best health. Those on the bottom are faced with more stressors–unpaid bills, jobs that don’t pay enough, unsafe living conditions, exposure to environmental hazards, lack of control over work and schedule, worries over children–and the fewest resources available to help them cope." ivAn economically-just society is one in which all people have equal opportunity and equal access to the resources and opportunities that impact their health.
  • RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. “Restorative justice is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of victims, offenders, as well as the involved community, instead of satisfying abstract legal principles or punishing the offender.” v In this model, crime is viewed as an offense against the community – including victim and offender – rather than against the state.
Continuing Education

Continuing education credit/contact hours have been approved for the 2011 CityMatCH Conference and are FREE OF CHARGE in 2011!

The deadline to apply for continuing education credit for the 2011 CityMatCH Urban MCH Leadership Conference is October 31st, 2011. If you are interested in receiving credit for having attended this year’s conference, please click here.

  • CME: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and CityMatCH.
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME ®) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates this live educational activity for a maximum of 23.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • Continuing Education designated for Non-Physicians: Non-physicians will receive a certificate of participation.

  • CNE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of Continuing Nursing Education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
    This activity provides 23.2 contact hours.

  • IACET CEU: The CDC has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102. The CDC is authorized by IACET to offer 2.6 ANSI/IACET CEU's for this program.

  • CECH: Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designed for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) to receive up to 23 Category I CECH in health education. CDC provider number GA0082.

Financial Disclosure Statement

CDC, our planners, and our presenters wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters with the following exceptions:

Grace Boda wishes to disclose that she a consultant for Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Contra Costa Health Department.

Marita Fridjhon wishes to disclose that she is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CRR Global, Inc.

Tina Podlodowski wishes to disclose that she is the Vice-President for Porter Novelli.

Vernon A. Wall wishes to disclose that he works as an independent consultant.

Presentations will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use.

CityMatCH has not received any commercial support for this activity.

CDC has not received any commercial support for this activity.

Questions? Contact Marilyn Ingram at: moingram@unmc.edu or 402-552-9500.

 

AGENDA AND PRESENTATIONS
At-A-Glance
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Conference Recordings

2011 CityMatCH Conference Welcome

Plenary 1
Working for Justice: Key Concepts

Plenary 2
Working for Justice: Improving Our Urban Communities - Why Place and Race Matter

Plenary 3 and Faciliated Discussion
Working for Justice: Framing Our Message
Part 1 | Part 2

Plenary 4 (Madga Peck Leadership Symposium)
Working for Justice: Leadership Makes the Difference