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2004 Quality Conference Promotes Culturally Competent Health Care

April 1, 2006 | Program Result Report

Project staff organized the "Fourth National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations," held September 28 through October 1, 2004 in Washington.

Survey Assesses Strengths and Weakness of Service Agencies for the Elderly

March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report

In 2000, the National Council on the Aging conducted a survey among community service organizations concerning their health and social support programs for older adults.

Measures of Access to Health Care Need for Hispanics to Reflect Cultural Differences

August 25, 2003 | Program Result Report

Claudia L. Schur, PhD, and researchers at Project HOPE examined the role and implications of cultural bias in a commonly used measure of access to health care, particularly as it is applied to different subgroups of the Hispanic population.

Dartmouth Atlas Project

April 18, 2011 | Program Result Report

The overarching objective of the Dartmouth Atlas is to report local and regional variation in the performance of U.S. health care to policymakers and health systems and to provide interpretation of unwarranted variation that can guide policy.

Speaking Together: National Language Services Network

April 18, 2011 | Program Result Report

Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.

Raising the Flag for Community Health Workers

January 26, 2010 | Program Result Report

From 2006 to 2009, staff members at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, worked to raise the profile and influence of community health workers in the health care system and among policy-makers.

Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations is Subject of 2008 Conference

December 9, 2009 | Program Result Report

Drexel University School of Public Health hosted the Sixth National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations. The aim was to support practitioners and advance the field through innovation, policy and research.

First National Conference on Cultural and Ethnic Diversity Addresses Health Care Quality and Access

June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

In 1998, a first-of-a-kind conference met to address cultural and ethnic diversity issues related to health care quality and access.

Lost in the Translation

January 1, 1997 | Program Result Report

Faculty at Harvard Medical School's Center for the Study of Culture and Medicine explored the influence and effects of culture and ethnicity on the access to and quality of health care services from an anthropology perspective.

2006 Conference Promotes Culturally Competent, Quality Health Care as Way to Reduce Disparities

February 1, 2008 | Program Result Report

The Fifth National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations was held October 17-20, 2006 in Seattle.

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