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Session: Cultural Competency/Diversity: Understanding Diversity From a Community Perspective
4208.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Cultural Competency/Diversity: Understanding Diversity From a Community Perspective
Create a process to assess the cultural competency of healthcare environment, including staff and system characteristics for the community.
Learning Objectives: Describe examples of standards, innovative curriculum and programming designed to increase access to culturally and linguistically appropriate communication in varoius types of settings.
Presider(s):Jasmine Hall, MHA
2:30 PMUsing the Federal CLAS Standards to Foster a More Culturally Competent Healthcare Environment  [ Recorded presentation ]
Stergios T. Roussos, PHD, MPH, David Campa, MD, MPH, Jim McDiarmid, PHD, Lisa Baladad, Danette Flores, BS
2:48 PMInterpreter services: The effect on quality and outcomes of care  [ Recorded presentation ]
Gayle Tang, MSN, RN, Sunny K. Pak, MS, Neill Piland, DrPH
3:06 PMUnderstanding religious diversity: A healthcare administrator's new challenge  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jasmine Hall, MHA
3:24 PMCurriculum Development and Delivery of Medical Interpreter Training Programs: Statewide Collaboration to Overcome Health Disparities
Lisa Morris, MSTD
3:42 PMVietnamese Refugees and the Danish Health Care Service: Attitude, Use and Barriers  [ Recorded presentation ]
Joseph D Truong
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Health Administration
Endorsed by:Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community; 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