This study examined the validity of the policy-driven notion that patient centeredness, patient-
doctor relationship, patient-doctor communication, and cultural competency represent four …

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

Cultural competence and patient centeredness are approaches to improving healthcare
quality that have been promoted extensively in recent years. In this paper, we explore the …

Objective: Health researchers have proposed that provider cultural competency may
contribute to health disparities. Yet, this belief continues to lack empirical support, and this is …

This dissertation examines health care provider-receiver intercultural interaction processes
and measures health care receivers' experience of health care providers' cultural …

This study presents the measurement properties of 5 scales used in the Healthcare Provider
Cultural Competence Instrument (HPCCI). The HPCCI measures a health care provider's …

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 …

Background. Cross-cultural education of clinicians has been identified as one strategy to
reduce racial healthcare disparities; however, there is limited empirical research to support …

California is an increasingly diverse state. Foreign immigration has fueled an explosion in
the Latino and Asian populations, leaving health care providers to serve increasing numbers …

Many studies have documented disparities in access to and satisfaction with medical care
by race and ethnicity. Disparities are often attributed to providers' failure to accommodate …