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Table of Contents
- Health Literacy Resources
- Additional CLAS Resources
- Cultural Competence and Barriers to Care
- Office of Civil Rights Resources to Assist Providers to Comply with the Law
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The following resources are available from the AETC Capitol Region Telehealth Project's Knowledge Center as well as repository locations of our collaborative partners. Materials are listed with most recent items first.
Health Literacy Resources
- Problem Posing and Cultural Tailoring: Developing an HIV/AIDS Health Literacy Toolkit with the African American community.
The rate of HIV infection among African Americans is disproportionately higher than for other racial groups in the United States. This article suggests that low level of health literacy (HL) is an underlying factor to explain racial disparities in the prevalence and incidence of HIV/AIDS. The present research describes a community and university project to develop a culturally tailored HIV/AIDS HL toolkit in the African American community to address this service delivery issue. Paulo Freire's pedagogical philosophy and problem-posing methodology served as the guiding framework throughout the development process of the toolkit. The discussion in the article highlights how Freire's pedagogical philosophy and methodology enhances the development of culturally tailored health information intervention tool. Source: PubMed 2011 - Language, culture and emotions: exploring ethnic minority patients' emotional expressions in primary healthcare consultations
This study explores ethnic minority patients' expression of emotional cues and concerns in primary healthcare, and examines relationships with patient, provider and consultation attributes.
Source: Pubmed 2011 - Vulnerability of older Latino and Asian immigrants with limited English proficiency
This analysis was conducted to explore the implications of limited English proficiency (LEP) for disparities in health status and healthcare service use of older Latino and Asian immigrants.
Source: Pubmed 2011 - Association between limited English proficiency and understanding prescription labels among five ethnic groups in California
Misunderstanding of prescription labels results in adverse drug events and non-adherence. This study assessed the effect of limited English and other factors on prescription understanding among five ethnic groups in a controlled analysis.
Source: Pubmed 2011
- Glossary
Search the 9th edition online Glossary for an HIV-related term to see its definition or download a PDF version in English or Spanish.
Source: ClinicalInfo 2021 - A Guide to Developing a Culturally Competent Organization
This article presents key content areas and activities to consider on the journey to cultural competence.
Source: PubMed 2011
Additional CLAS Resources
- Civil Rights Obligations as a Covered Entity
- What is a Covered Entity?
- How do you know if you are not a Covered Entity?
- Regulations and Nondiscrimination Laws Enforced by OCR That May Apply to Providers
Cultural Competence and Barriers to Care
- How the ACA Changes Pathways to Insurance Coverage for People with HIV
This informative article spells out how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) impacts insurance coverage for people living with HIV, and includes information prior to ACA (before 2010), during the transition period (2010-2014) and full implementation of ACA (2014 and beyond). Follow the link above to read the full report.
Source: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2012 - Cultural competency assessment tool for hospitals: Evaluating hospitals' adherence to the culturally and linguistically appropriate services standards
This study describes the development of the Cultural Competency Assessment Toll for Hospital (CCATH), estimates the reliability and validity of the CCATH measures, and discusses the managerial implications of the CCATH as an organizational tool to assess cultural competency.
Source: Pubmed 2011 - Cultural Competence Education for Students in Medicine and Public Health: Report of an Expert Panel. Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH). 2012
- Enhancing the Delivery of Health Care: Eliminating Health Disparities through a Culturally & Linguistically Centered Integrated Health Care Approach: Consensus Statements and Recommendations. Office of Minority Health/Hogg Foundation. 2012
- Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TACCT). TACCT is a self-administered assessment tool that can be used by medical schools to examine all components of the entire medical school curriculum. TACCT enables schools to identify gaps and redundancies in their curricula, which will enable schools to make the best use of opportunities and resources. The TACCT can be used for both traditional and problem-based curricula.
Source: Medical Education and Cultural Competence: A Strategy to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, a project of the Assosiation of American Medical Colleges, 2012 - Increasing and supporting the participation of persons of color living with HIV/AIDS in AIDS clinical trials
Persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) of color are under-represented in AIDS clinical trials (ACTs), which may limit the generalizability of research findings and denies many individuals access to high levels of care and new treatments available through ACTs. This paper describes a small number of successful behavioral and structural interventions to increase the participation of PLHA of color in screening for and enrollment into ACTs.
Source: Pubmed 2011
- Recruiting intergenerational African American males for biomedical research Studies: a major research challenge
In an effort to understand perspectives about African American level of participation, motivation for participation, impact of education and engagement in research, this study explores factors that impact their willingness to participate.
Source: Pubmed 2011
- Cultural competence: reflections on patient autonomy and patient good
This article explores the moral foundations of cultural competence, ultimately locating them in patient autonomy and patient good.
Source: Pubmed 2011
- Enhancing the cultural competency of health-care organizations
This paper argues the importance of cultural competency from a societal perspective and also as a strategy for health-care organizations to improve quality, lower cost, and attract customers; and provides detailed recommendations for health-care leaders and managers to adopt in order to successfully serve a diverse patient population.
Source: Pubmed 2011
- The ethical self-fashioning of physicians and health care systems in culturally appropriate health care
This study explores the diverse methods that cultural competence trainings use to foster a health care provider's ability to be self-reflexive, including face-to-face workshops and classes and self-guided on-line modules.
Source: Pubmed 2011
- Barriers and unmet need for supportive services for HIV patients in care in Los Angeles County, California
Data on barriers to needed supportive services are critical to improving patient access. This study examines barriers to support service use and factors associated with need and unmet need for services.
Source: Pubmed 2011
- Using Campinha-Bacote's process of cultural competence model to examine the relationship between health literacy and cultural competence
This paper presents a discussion of the relation between health literacy and cultural competence in nursing practice.
Source: Pubmed 2011
- A community-based study of barriers to HIV care initiation
This study identifies potential barriers to HIV treatment initiation.
Source: Pubmed 2011