SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Analyze and differentiate between health inequities, equalities and disparities;
2. Theorize about difference, power, discrimination and privilege;
3. Describe the health and social effects of difference/discrimination and privilege/power;
4. Analyze social determinants of health during childbearing and across the life course;
5. Analyze microaggressions and how they unfold to impact health and social well-being;
6. Summarize historical and current sociocultural practices of institutional racism;
7. Theorize about systems of oppression, intersectionality and structural violence;
8. Critically evaluate the influence of social identities (including: race/ethnicity, maternal age,
socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender) on health and social outcomes, healthcare
practices, and embodied experiences;
9. Analyze and differentiate between cultural humility and cultural competency frameworks;
10. Critically evaluate personal implicit biases and privileges associated with certain social identities,
especially white privilege;
11. Summarize anti-oppression and anti-racism efforts within midwifery and perinatal health;
12. Describe the role of allies in advancing equity and social justice;
13. Research inequities in perinatal health;
14. Compare and contrast how sociocultural variations and structural constraints impact perinatal
health and the childbearing experience;
15. Summarize major cultural humility and equity models for care practitioners, including: the
explanatory models approach and the structural competency approach;
16. Theorize the role of structural vulnerability in (re)producing health inequities;
17. Describe and implement cultural interviewing techniques in health care provision;
18. Locate and identify advocacy-oriented strategies for decreasing health inequities and increasing
cultural humility in maternity care;
19. Summarize levels of racism, including individual, interpersonal, and institutional;
20. Theorize on action steps for advancing anti-oppression, diversity, and cultural humility practices
in midwifery care/the midwifery profession;
21. Apply Racial Equity Impact Analysis (REIA) tools to midwifery practice;
22. Develop increased self-awareness for the ethical and culturally safe care of diverse clientele;
23. Theorize on identity development as a component of personal self-actualization and institutional
(systems-level) practices
Midwives College of Utah. (2021). SOSC 1010- Equity & Anti-Oppression in Midwifery Care: Understanding Difference, Power & Privilege Syllabus.