Session: Promoting Quality Health Care for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
5104.0: Wednesday, November 19, 2003: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Promoting Quality Health Care for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Presider(s):Nancy A Jewell, MPA
12:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
12:35 PMSetting the agenda for research on cultural competence in health care
Guadalupe Pacheco, MSW, Cindy Brach, MPP
12:55 PMA national study of culturally and linguistically appropriate services in managed care organizations
Angela J. Ware, PhD, Betty Lee Hawks, MPH
1:15 PMAssessing the impact of language barriers on the costs and quality of health care
Chris Gibbons, MD, MPH, Angela J. Ware, PhD, Joan Jacobs, MPH
1:35 PMConcluding Remarks
Organized by:Health Administration
Endorsed by:Chiropractic Health Care; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Latino Caucus; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA