| 1 |
Culturally Competent Healthcare Systems: A Systematic Review ...
|
|
|
|
Abstract:
Culturally competent healthcare systems—those that provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services—have the potential to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities. When clients do not understand what their healthcare providers are telling them, and providers either do not speak the client’s language or are insensitive to cultural differences, the quality of health care can be compromised. We reviewed five interventions to improve cultural competence in healthcare systems—programs to recruit and retain staff members who reflect the cultural diversity of the community served, use of interpreter services or bilingual providers for clients with limited English proficiency, cultural competency training for healthcare providers, use of linguistically and culturally appropriate health education materials, and culturally specific healthcare settings. We could not determine the effectiveness of any of these interventions, because there were either too few comparative studies, or studies did not examine ...
|
|
Keyword:
Access To Healthcare; cultural; cultural competence; Disparities; healthcare systems; interventions; linguistic; Practice; quality of healthcare; racial and ethnic disparities; service; services
|
|
URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.13016/adqx-6gjo
http://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/22450
|
|
BASE
|
|
Hide details
|
|
|
| 2 |
Culturally Competent Healthcare Systems: A Systematic Review
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
|
|
