Refer the following lecture: Culture and Access to Care—A FrameworkHealth Promotion for Multicultural PopulationsConsider this scenario: (The scenario could have considered any population located wit
Culture and Access to Care—A Framework
There are numerous frameworks/models that can assess, plan, implement, and evaluate Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) programs for multicultural population groups. All of these share common elements, including the need to accurately determine what the target population is, what group member’s specific health needs and concerns are, what makes group members unique as a cultural or ethnic group, and what special planning efforts will be needed to deliver culturally competent and sensitive services to them.
The Cultural Assessment Framework (CAF) or model, presented in the text, provides an organizing framework that encourages a more systematic approach to the planning situation, the cultural characteristics of the target group, setting, and health problem. The framework presents five major levels of assessment:
Culture-specific demographic variable
Culture-specific epidemiological and environmental influences
General and specific cultural characteristics
General and specific health beliefs and practices
Western health care organization and service delivery variables
Each of these levels of assessment identifies a higher level of understanding about the population’s ethnic culture to ensure that culturally appropriate, competent, and sensitive HPDP programs and services are planned for and with group members.
Additional Materials
From your course textbook Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health, review the following chapters:
Children's Health Disparities
All Things Being Equal, Does Race/Ethnicity Affect How Physicians Treat Patients?
Why Does Race/Ethnicity Affect the Way Physicians Treat Patients?
From your course textbook Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations: A Handbook for Practitioners and Students, review the following chapters:
The Cultural Assessment Framework
Planning Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programs in Multicultural Populations
Cross-Cultural Communication and Health Literacy in Multicultural Populations
From the Internet, read the following:
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps opens in new window
Forum on Child and Family Statistics opens in new window
MAPP Network opens in new window
NACCHO Webinars opens in new window
Social Media: A New Data Source for Public Health opens in new window
Burgess, D. J., Fu, S. S., & van Ryn, M. (2004). Why do providers contribute to disparities and what can be done about it? Journal of General Internal Medicine, 19(11), 1154–1159.
Morrissey, T. (2011). The Affordable Care Act's public health workforce provisions: Opportunities and challenges. Retrieved from http://www.apha.org/NR/rdonlyres/461D56BE-4A46-4C9F-9BA4-9535FE370DB7/0/APHAWorkforce2011_updated.pdf