Healthcare Disparities in Diabetes Care

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Objective • Why is culture important in health care? • How do we reduce health care disparities? • How do we bridge the gap? • Key aspects of African Americans, American Indians and Hispanics. i
Culturally Competent Care Definition • The knowledge, skills and attitudes required to provide quality clinical care to patients from different cultural, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. • It involves tailoring delivery to meet patients’ social, cultural and linguistic needs in an effort to improve outcome and eliminate disparities in healthcare.
Page 1: Dr. Aldith Lewis Internal Medicine
Page 5 and 6: Culturally Competent Diabetes Care
Page 7 and 8: Culturally Competent Diabetes Care
Page 9 and 10: The Result • Increase costs for i
Page 11 and 12: How Do We Bridge the Gap?
Page 13 and 14: How Do We Bridge The Gap? • Accor
Page 15 and 16: How Do We Bridge the Gap? • Peek
Page 17 and 18: Key Aspects of Different Ethnic Gro
Page 19 and 20: Social Structure • Nuclear family
Page 21 and 22: Religion • Strong religious affil
Page 23 and 24: Medical Care • Older African Amer
Page 25 and 26: American Indians Social Structure F
Page 27 and 28: Diet • Fish is the principal food
Page 29 and 30: Religion • Indians nurture relati
Page 31 and 32: Medical Care • Also prevalent are
Page 33 and 34: Medical Care • Sickness viewed as
Page 35 and 36: Death and Dying • Immediate and e
Page 37 and 38: Hispanics/Latinos • Hispanics/Lat
Page 39 and 40: Social Structure • Friendliness a
Page 41 and 42: Diet • In US, they replace tradit
Page 43 and 44: Medical Care • Diabetes is twice
Page 45 and 46: Tips • Be gracious. • Acknowled
Page 47 and 48: Tips • Acknowledge male family me
Page 49 and 50: TIPS • Ask the patient if they us
Page 51 and 52: Summary • Establishing a trusting
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References • White, Richard M.D.,
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