Provision of “culturally competent” medical care is one of the strategies advocated for
reducing or eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities. This report identifies five …

Patient-centeredness and cultural competence have been promoted extensively in recent
years as approaches to improving health care quality. This paper explores the historical …

This report reviews key principles of quality (as it relates to the overall quality of the health
care system and individual approaches to quality improvement); reviews evidence of the …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As the United States becomes a more racially and ethnically
diverse nation, health care systems and providers need to respond to patients' varied …

OVERVIEW: Culturally competent healthcare systems—those that provide culturally and
linguistically appropriate services—have the potential to reduce racial and ethnic health …

Promoting culturally competent communication at the provider, care institution, health plan,
and national levels is likely to contribute to success in reducing racial and ethnic disparities …

This article develops a conceptual model of cultural competency's potential to reduce racial
and ethnic health disparities, using the cultural competency and disparities literature to lay …

Objectives. Racial/ethnic disparities in health in the US have been well described. The field
of “cultural competence” has emerged as one strategy to address these disparities. Based …

Healthcare, brought into stark focus the issues of inequities based on minority status in
health care services. The IOM report concluded that,“Bias, stereotyping, prejudice, and …

Finding ways to deliver high-quality health care to an increasingly diverse population is a
major challenge for the American health care system. The persistence of racial and ethnic …