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You’re invited to a webinar to explore cultural competency and population health.
The webinar, set for 10 a.m. CST on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, is conducted by Redes En Acción, a national Latino cancer research network funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and led by the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday.
Dr. J. Emilio Carrillo, leader of Redes‘ northeast region and a researcher at the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center and the New York-Presbyterian Community Health Plan, will explore why cultural competency is a vital to the success of population health efforts.
This patient-based, cross-cultural approach helps bridge cultural barriers in the care of individual patients by recognizing and addressing the three cultures in the exam room: patient, provider and biomedical cultures.
Attention is paid to language and health literacy as the provider applies skills to explore the patients’ meaning and environmental context in order to negotiate mutually agreeable plans of care.
The development of plans of care in the setting of care coordination and care management also require the same attention to the patient’s unique social and cultural perspective.
Population health programs must also be based on community needs assessments that consider the population’s social and cultural characteristics.
This webinar will explore skills sets that facilitate patient based cross-cultural care and outline an approach to population health management that defines and targets financial, structural and cognitive barriers to healthcare access.
Register here for the webinar.
By The Numbers
25.1
percent
of Latinos remain without health insurance coverage
