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Session: Cultural Competency/Diversity: Cultural Sensitivity in Primary Health Care
4043.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Cultural Competency/Diversity: Cultural Sensitivity in Primary Health Care
The goal of any training program is to teach health care providers about the awareness, knowledge, and skills to provide quality health care service to patients of different cultural backgrounds.
Learning Objectives: Discuss how culturally sensitive health care inventories/models can be used to assess the need for, and impact of, culturally sensitive health care training for providers, staff and patients in the delivery of primary health care.
Presider(s):Carolyn Tucker, PhD
8:30 AMMeasuring the Impact of the Opening Doors Cultural Competence Training for Health Care Providers
Susan Kim, MPH
8:42 AMEducating the public health workplace: Confronting health disparities
Ann Kenny, RN, MPH, Guadalupe Pacheco, MSW
8:54 AMCultural competency effects of participation in an interdisciplinary rural health-training program
Marion K. Slack, PhD, Frances Brazzell, OT, MA
9:06 AMTraining primary care clinic providers, staff, and patients to promote culturally sensitive health care environments
Jacob Van den Berg, MS, Carolyn Tucker, PhD, Beverly Brady, PhD, Erica Byrnes, BA, BS, Jessica Jones, BS, Rhonda Hackshaw, MS
9:18 AMAssessments for measuring cultural sensitivity in community-based primary care clinics
Anca Mirsu-Paun, BS, Carolyn Tucker, PhD, Chanelle Richards, MS, Bikashree Jaiswal, PhD
9:30 AMCharacteristics of culturally sensitive primary care clinics: Views of minority patients
Lisa Ferdinand, EdM, Carolyn Tucker, PhD, Beverly Brady, PhD, Chanelle Richards, MS
9:42 AMQuestions and Answers
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Health Administration
Endorsed by:Chiropractic Health Care; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Food and Nutrition; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA