Tuesday 31 Oct | 10:40-12:10

 

Part 1: Medical misogyny – how is healthcare blind to sex and gender

VBHC provides the framework for designing care with and around the person. It establishes a holistic approach to designing health and care that removes unwarranted variation and establishes costs based on the needs and desired outcomes of the person and/or population. Sex and gender bias in healthcare is unwarranted variation. This leads to poorer health outcomes, higher costs and safety and quality issues. Delegates should challenge themselves, their practice, and their biases to test whether sex and gender have played a role.

Key points relating to sex and gender bias are:

• It is a safety and quality issue


• It drives unwarranted variation in care


• Leads to lower value care


• Limits participation in society and employment


• Limits research


• Limits economic productivity

Objectives:

• Identify their own biases


• Seek to learn how to rectify this


• Be engaged in leading the change

Zoe Wainer, Victorian Government Department of Health, Australia

Christobel Saunders, The University of Western Australia, Australia

Susan Mckee, Dental Health Services Victoria, Australia

 

Part 2: Using Improvement Science to End Homelessness: One year on

Did you know that homelessness in Australia is preventable and solvable? Advance to Zero (A to Z) is a ground-breaking national initiative of the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness that supports local collaborative efforts to end homelessness, starting with rough sleeping. Using the A to Z and Improvement Science methodologies, communities are supported not just to address or even reduce homelessness, but to end it. Building on the 2022 Forum session, Advance to Zero teams will demonstrate how one community reduced the number of people sleeping rough by over 50%, and another has almost achieved their goal of functional zero. Join them as they share insights and results and discuss opportunities to further address inequities by integrating health and homelessness services through Improvement Science.

Objectives:

• Understand how the A to Z and Improvement Science methodologies work in an integrated way to end homelessness


• Apply learnings from teams across Australia who have worked to end rough sleeping in their communities using an integrated, equitable and person-centred approach


• Apply learnings shared during the session to their current improvement efforts and understand how they might support their own service delivery models towards ending homelessness in their communities
  
  

David Pearson, CEO Australian Alliance to End Homelessness, Australia

George Hatvani, Launch Housing; Australia

Hannah Neven-Gorr, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), USA

Una McKeever, Healthcare for the Homeless Group, St Vincent’s Hospital; Australia