Chiropractor's Role in Promoting Health, Guiding Health Behavior Change, and Addressing Social Determinants of Health

A comprehensive 12-hour on-demand course consisting of six modules:

Module One: Spine Pain and Its Impact on the Public's Health - Covers spine-related disorders as a public health challenge, their societal burden, and the chiropractor's role in addressing SRDs through culturally competent care, pain management, exercise prescription, and interprofessional collaboration.

Module Two: Community Engagement Through Public Health Advocacy - Covers basic community advocacy models for public health education and health promotion efforts aimed at populations, including private practice advocacy models and motivational interviewing techniques.

Module Three: Environmental Health - Provides an overview of environmental health considerations for chiropractors, case studies of patients following environmental exposure, and discussion of health impacts of environmental toxins and climate change including neuropathies, headaches, and mental health manifestations.

Module Four: Addressing Patient Health Behavior Through Applied Theory and Motivational Interviewing Techniques - Introduces learners to basic health behavior theories and evidence-based communication techniques to improve clinician communication skills and patient health and wellbeing.

Module Five: Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Chiropractic Clinical Practice - Provides understanding of current challenges faced by individuals and communities in pursuit of better health, discusses circumstances affecting health, and highlights chiropractors' role in understanding and addressing social determinants of health.

Module Six: Health Equity: The Chiropractor's Role in Addressing Health Equity in a Multicultural Society - Examines biopsychosocial factors impacting health equity in a multicultural society and discusses personal belief systems and cognitive bias affecting the chiropractor-patient relationship.

Participants must watch the entire video and answer quiz questions before moving to the next module.

• •Identify spine-related disorders as a public health challenge and describe the chiropractor's role in addressing them through culturally competent, interprofessional care
• •Apply motivational interviewing techniques and health behavior theories to facilitate patient health behavior change in clinical practice
• •Analyze social determinants of health and implement strategies to address these factors within chiropractic clinical settings
• •Evaluate personal beliefs, cognitive biases, and biopsychosocial factors that impact health equity and the chiropractor-patient relationship
• •Develop community advocacy and public health education initiatives that promote health at the population level
• •Assess environmental health risks and their clinical manifestations, including toxin exposure and climate change-related health impacts
• •Integrate evidence-based communication skills and health promotion strategies to advance health equity in multicultural patient populations