5-Minute MCH: Module 3.3

1. How to Advance Yourself as an MCH Leader (Self-Reflection Strategy). Identify your own personal strengths and areas of growth related to Competency 3: Ethics and Professionalism, by taking 5 minutes to register/log-in and answer questions related to this competency in the MCH Navigator's online Self-Assessment.
2. How to Find and Use Tools to Help You (Information Strategy). Access the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health's Ethics and Professionalism professional resource brief. Contents include a brochureand poster the principles of and skills for the Ethical Practice of Public Health (also known as the Code of Ethics).
3. How to Activate Your Organization (Organizational Strategy). Consider reading National Association of County and City Health Officials' (NACCHOs') new report and fact sheet about building an ethics infrastructure in local health departments (LHDs). Has your LHD implemented an ethics committee? Talk to colleagues about how you can work together to respond effectively to public health ethics issues and promote the importance of public health ethics in your organization. [Note: You will need to register on NACCHO's website to download the publications (free).]
4. How to Incorporate Partners (Systems Strategy). View the National Conference of State Legislatures' Ethics: Links to State’s Online Ethics Training Programs, Training Manuals, and Slide Presentations to find resources available for and from your state partners. Or, read this article abstract and learn how the Kansas Legislative Health Academy is helping legislators develop new skills to deliberate the ethics of health policy and use systems-thinking to understand the effects of policy action and inaction.
5. How to Engage Your Communities. Are you interested in helping others better understand the ethical implications of health disparities within MCH populations? Check out these infographics from San Francisco State University's Health Equity Institute. Topics include a Health Equity Framework, What Are Health Inequities, What Are Health Disparities, What Affects Health Equity, Health Equity And Neighborhoods, and The Path to Achieving Health Equity.
   

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