SWK 5025: Social Determinants of Health: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Ohio State Interprofessional Practice and Education Experience


Title of the Interprofessional Practice and Education Experience

SWK 5025: Social Determinants of Health: An Interdisciplinary Perspective


Experience Status

Approved


Approval Date Range

4/4/2025 - 3/9/2027


Criteria for Registering the IPE Experience

  • Involvement of learners from two or more professions, disciplines, degree programs, and/or community sectors.
  • Learning objectives are directly related to one or more of Ohio State’s interprofessional collaborative practice competencies (Values/Ethics for Interprofessional Practice, Roles/Responsibilities, Interprofessional Communication, Teams & Teamwork, Collaborative Leadership, Evidence-based Practice).
  • Learners actively learn about, from, and with each other, to improve health and healthcare outcomes for individuals, populations, and/or communities.
  • Learner performance next to at least one objective related to Ohio State’s interprofessional collaborative practice competencies is assessed, and learners are provided feedback.

Type of IPE Experience

  • Discussion

IPEC Core Competencies Targeted by this IPE Experience

  • Collaborative Leadership: Engage members of the interprofessional team, including individuals and communities, in collaborative leadership.
  • Communication: Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.
  • Evidence-based Practice: Utilize evidence to inform all aspects of interprofessional teamwork.
  • Roles and Responsibilities: Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address individual and population health outcomes.
  • Teams and Teamwork: Apply values and principles of the science of teamwork to adapt one's own role in a variety of team settings.
  • Values and Ethics: Work with team members to maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.

Quintuple Aim Strategic Goals Discussed in this IPE Experience

  • Improved health care team experience
  • Improved health equity
  • Improved patient / client experience
  • Improved population health
  • Reduced costs

Detailed Description and Purpose of the IPE Experience

Description
This course is open to students from any discipline. Social determinants of health covers topics relevant to city/regional planning, geography, law, political science, healthcare, social welfare, etc. Application of social determinants of health frameworks necessitate inter professional collaboration given the impact that non-healthcare related experiences have on health and wellbeing (e.g., the social context of which we are born, live, work, and grow). Many readings throughout the course emphasize the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration. In the class, students have the opportunity to learn from their peers who may be from a variety of disciplines. For example, this semester, students are primarily from social work, but there are also students from city/regional planning and education. Working in groups, students apply their disciplinary lens to social issues and share this with the class. A specific course objective is to “Understand diverse models of interdisciplinary team practice in health settings and their relevance for addressing social determinants of health.”


Level of IPE Integration

  • 1. Foundations: Consists of introductory learning experience that equips learners with new knowledge and skills that enable them to interact and learn from professions, disciplines, and community sectors outside their own.

Attendance or Participation in the IPE Experience

  • Stand-alone for-credit course

Attendance or Participation is Voluntary or Required

  • Required for everyone enrolled

Preparation Work Hours

  • 06. greater than 11 hours

Frequency of the IPE Experience

  • 02. Semesterly – occurs each semester
  • Frequency unknown.

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

  • 06. greater than 11 hours
  • Duration unknown.

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

  • Campus - Columbus
  • Location unknown.

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

  • 03. 26- 50
  • Number of learners unknown.

Target Audiences

College of Arts and Sciences (ASC)


College of Dentistry


College of Education and Human Ecology (EHE)


College of Engineering


College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)


College of Medicine


College of Nursing


College of Optometry


College of Pharmacy


College of Public Health (CPH)


College of Social Work (CSW)

  • Master of Social Work (MSW)

College of Veterinary Medicine


Ohio Dominican University


Other

IPEC Core Competencies for the Experience

IPEC Core Competency: Values and Ethics

  • VE01. Promote the values and interests of persons and populations in health care delivery, One Health, and population health initiatives.

IPEC Core Competency: Roles and Responsibilities

IPEC Core Competency: Communication

IPEC Core Competency: Teams and Teamwork

Collaborative Leadership

Evidence-Based Practice

Contact Person(s) and Contact Information for the IPE Experience

Current instructor: Dr. David Kinitz (Kinitz.1@osu.edu)
Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs: Jennie Babcock (babcock.79@osu.edu)