Return-Path: <root> Received: (from root@localhost) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f7VBu2010954 for health-archive@nifl.gov; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:56:02 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200108311156.f7VBu2010954@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from sphnt3.sph.uth.tmc.edu (sphnt3.sph.uth.tmc.edu [129.106.2.14]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f6UKTRf29538 for <nifl-health@nifl.gov>; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:29:27 -0400 (EDT) content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C11935.A63CE12C" Subject: RE: [NIFL-HEALTH:3225] Fwd: cultural competency, patient satisfaction, outcomes X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4712.0 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:24:35 -0500 Message-ID: <40B30BA5E139F648B2EA60E6AE3A7B260DA3F2@sphnt3.sph.uth.tmc.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [NIFL-HEALTH:3225] Fwd: cultural competency, patient satisfaction, outcomes Thread-Index: AcEZLwDpH5YP8wvPSaqkitXgolN+ogABiCNw From: "Popham, Karyn" <KPopham@sph.uth.tmc.edu> To: <nifl-health@nifl.gov> Cc: <rrmiller@oz.net> Resent-From: root@literacy.nifl.gov Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:56:02 -0400 Resent-To: health-archive@nifl.gov Status: O Content-Length: 7702 Lines: 182 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Dr. Miller, Greetings, and welcome to the list! There's a great deal of information on cultual competence and health care. In fact, you may be overloaded if you do a simple Medline or CINAHL search on the subject (though "cultural competence" is not a MeSH term, please note; try "culture", "cultural characteristics", and "cross-cultural comparison"). (I assume you know you can go to www.nlm.nih.gov and access the National Library of Medicine's databases for free--this is assuming you are in the U.S., which isn't clear from your e-mail address.) You may want to start with the AMA's _Cultural Competence Compendium_ (second edition, 1999); you can find a description on the AMA-assn.org website. Another option is to go to Amazon.com and pull up Rachel Spector's _Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness_, 5th edition, 2000, and the books Amazon has linked to it. I wish I could think of the name of a book I ran across about four years back. It was a pocket guide for physicians, as I recall, and for hundreds of ethnic groups from around the world it listed salient health beliefs (e.g., how illness is characterized, beliefs in the "evil eye", type of treatments considered efficacious in that culture). Does this ring a bell with anyone else? I wish I'd bought a copy when I first came across it! Someone with more up-to-the-minute expertise will no doubt have better information; if, however, the well seems dry, let me know and I'll see how I can help. Best regards, Karyn Popham UT School of Public Health Houston, Texas -----Original Message----- From: Dwyoho@aol.com [mailto:Dwyoho@aol.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:3225] Fwd: cultural competency, patient satisfaction, outcomes I am forwarding this inquiry to the list to help this physician. She has also been invited to subscribe to the discussion group. Everyone, meet Dr. Rosalie Miller, who has never been on a listserv before. Deborah W. Yoho Co-moderator, NIFL Health Literacy Discussion Group Chief Executive Officer Greater Columbia Literacy Council 921 Woodrow Street Columbia, SC 29205 803/765-2555 dwyoho@aol.com
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