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Disparities in Access to Health Care Services: Perspectives from Refugee and Immigrant Patients

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigrant or refugee and provides insight into the barriers facing refugee and immigrant patients in access
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Child Language Brokers: How Young and In What Situations?

Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in a variety of settings and under many conditions.
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Toolkit for Primary Care Providers Treating Newly Arrived Refugees

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide initial orientation to newly arrived refugees.
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Neighborhood Perceptions and Health-Related Outcomes among Latinos with Diabetes from a Rural Agricultural Community

Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual characteristics and contributions of the health care system.
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Improving Patient Safety for Patients with Limited English Proficiency

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limited English Proficiency.
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Implementing Cultural Competency Training Throughout an Entire Health System

In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences University sought to improve the cultural competency of their workforce and student body.
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Changing Systemic Attitudes: Impacting Health Systems

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creating a culture of inclusion is challenging.
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Cultural Competence Training: Creative Tools, Various Formats, Low Cost and Impactful

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, not-for-profit organization with more than 100 sites in Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois, more than 12,000
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Incorporating Critical Consciousness into Organizational Change Strategies

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of health equity at Barnes-Jewish Hospital:
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Cultural Competency Training and Education: The Role for Undergraduate Education

The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bodies, national organizations and quasi governmental entities.