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Improving Cultural Competency Among Healthcare Providers Working With Refugee Patients, Tena Chau
Improving Cultural Competency Among Healthcare Providers Working With Refugee Patients, Tena Chau
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Background: Increased diversity of the United States population has resulted in the presence of greater disparities in healthcare. One way to address factors contributing to health disparities has been to increase cultural competency in healthcare. Evidence from a review of the literature supports the idea that understanding aspects of cultural competency that are lacking among specific healthcare organizations are helpful to develop programs to address the areas of need. Purpose: The purpose was to complete a quality improvement project to evaluate if an educational intervention based on a specific model would lead to increased level of cultural competence among healthcare …