Title VI--Cultural Competency

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Length: 1/2 hour

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This presentation by Aaron Wendelboe, PhD Candidate, MSPH, gives you an overview of cultural competency and its implications for workers in the health care industry, mainly public health.

Target Audience

These learning modules are applicable to all public health, medical, veterinary, pharmacy, emergency management, hospital and other professionals interested in public health preparedness. These modules are created by faculty and guest lecturers at the UNC-CH School of Public Health and are equivalent to graduate level content.

Educational Objectives

Understand Title VI and its implications

Understand what it means to be culturally competent

Know the laws concerning cultural competency

Be informed of the standards used to measure the health care industry's cultural competency

Know the demographic distribution of people by language and race in North Carolina

Competencies Addressed

This training addresses the following public health and/or emergency preparedness and response competencies. (Please note: The following training does not provide comprehensive or in-depth treatment of specified competencies, it provides basic knowledge of the competencies listed below.)

Competency Group	Competency Name
Essential Service 3 Inform, educate and empower people about health issues	Identify cultural, social, and behavioral factors that affect health problems in your community.
Essential Service 4 Mobilize community partnerships and action to solve health problems	Interact effectively with people from diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and educational backgrounds.
Essential Service 7 Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of healthcare when otherwise unavailable	Identify healthcare service needs in your community. Work with interpreters to provide public health services to non-English speaking members of the community. Coordinate with other groups and agencies to ensure appropriate health care services are provided to your community. Adapt healthcare service programs to take into account cultural differences in the population.

References

http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/cor/coord/titlevi.htm

US Department of Justice. Your Rights Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/cor/Pubs/t6broch.htm

http://www.healthlaw.org/pubs/BBAregs/BBAcultural.html

USDHHS. Developing a Self-Assessment Tool for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Local Public Health Agencies: Final Report 2003; Office of Minority Health

USDHHS, Office of Minority Health. National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care. March 2001. Washington, D.C.

Office of Minority Health. National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care. DHHS. March 2001. (Powerpoint slideshow provided by Christina Harlan.)

National Census Bureau. American Fact Finder. 2000. Accessed on World Wide Web on July 16, 2004 at
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

Author and Narrator:

Aaron Wendelboe, PhD Candidate, MSPH

Reviewer:

Jennifer Horney, MPH

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