LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Health Net, in partnership with Physicians for a Healthy California (PHC), announced today the launch of a seven-part cultural competency education series for providers ...

“I felt super lucky:” Luck and administrative burden in cancer-related financial hardship. Introducing the SEER-Medicare-Housing and Urban Development data linkage: A novel resource for examining the ...

In the evolving landscape of healthcare, the ability to provide culturally sensitive care has become an increasingly vital skill for practitioners. It's not just a matter of politeness or etiquette; ...

According to a survey funded by the California Health Care Foundation of over 3,000 Black Californiansquestioned, 41% of such individuals conveyed they were educated to their healthcare providers, 35% ...

Joshua L. Schwarz, Raymond Witte, Sherrill L. Sellers, Rebecca A. Luzadis, Judith L. Weiner, Eloiza Domingo-Snyder, James E. Page Jr. https://www.jstor.org/stable ...

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Physicians and their patients can perceive health care experiences differently when they don’t share the same culture, ethnicity, and language. Such situations ...

Given the increasing diversity of Canada, cultural competence is considered of paramount importance in practising mental health care effectively. The term cultural competence refers to cultural ...

The pandemic shined a spotlight on inequities in the healthcare system, a system that is supposed to be free of unfair, avoidable, and remediable differences. In order to eliminate disparities between ...

How does a health care system ensure the population it serves gets the care it needs? The intentions of cultural competency may begin with wanting to deliver trauma-informed care to diverse ...

Jacqueline Fletcher wanted a primary care practitioner who took the time to listen to her, hear her, make her feel safe. She wanted someone who understood her ongoing life experience as a Black woman.