Cultural Proficiency in Addressing Health Disparities - Softcover

Kosoko-Lasaki, Sade; Cook, Cynthia Theresa; O'Brien, Richard L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076375174X ISBN 13: 9780763751746

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2008

Synopsis

This book has important information and current statistics on health disparities within the United States. It identifies our most vulnerable populations and offers guidelines on how to avoid cultural incompetence and promote cultural proficiency. Cultural Proficiency in Addressing Health Disparities will help us to address Healthy People 2010, which challenges individuals, communities, and professionals to take specific steps to ensure that good health, as well as long life, is enjoyed by all. This demands the ability to relate effectively to persons of many different cultures to assure collaborative participation in research (that must include minorities), clinical patient care and disease prevention.

Cultural Proficiency in Addressing Health Disparities is written by experienced health care practitioners and researchers who work every day to eliminate health disparities and produce a culturally proficient health care environment for patient, practitioner, and researchers.

Physicians, researchers, healthcare workers, health sciences educators and students, community workers, advocates, planners, policy-makers and similar professionals in non-profit and at the government level will benefit from the information, insights and experiences recounted in this book.

About this title

About the Author:

Associate Vice President, Health Sciences, Professor, Creighton University

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University

Professor, Creighton University

About this edition

• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 076375174X
• ISBN 13: 9780763751746
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434