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Knowledge And Perceived Barriers About Diabetic Retinopathy And Dilated Eye Exam In Patients With Diabetes, Manisha Verma, Md, Mph, Mona Sarfaty, Robert Simmons, Drph, Mph, Albert Crawford

Mona Sarfaty

Conclusions:

• The results of this study suggest that 68% of the population from this primary care practice got a dilated eye exam within a year. Facilitators were awareness/knowledge about the DR and DFE, eye problems and information from their doctors.
• Almost 20% of the patients did not get an eye exam as recommended. Various barriers included cost, transportation issues, time constraint issues, lack of symptoms of the disease, and fear of the exam.
• There is a significance difference in getting an eye exam by the type of insurance with a smaller percentage of Medicaid recipients (60%) meeting the guidelines compared …

Teaching Cultural Humility And Competence: A Multi-Disciplinary Course For Public Health And Health Services Students, Rob Simmons Drph,Mph,Ches, Nancy L. Chernett, Mph, Elaine Yuen, Phd, Susan Toth-Cohen, Phd, Otr/L

College of Population Health Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

Poster on the interdisciplinary Cultural Humility and Competence course taught at the Jefferson School of Population Health for the past several years.

Overall Course Aim:

Why a multi-disciplinary cultural humility competence course?

An in-depth and advanced understanding of cultural diversity, health inequities and cultural competence in inter-professional health and human service delivery and administration. Facilitate development of cultural competence and humility in one's self, colleagues and the work environment and its application to practice.