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It Out: A Rich Source of Video Looking
for cross cultural care videos to educate both you and your patients?
Take a look at the New Routes to Community Health video library, available here.
You'll find numerous short pieces for recent immigrants, in Cambodian,
Hmong, Lao, Vietnamese, Somali, Russian and Spanish, plus a host of other
languages. Topics range from sexually transmitted disease to a discussion
on why Somali men take their coffee with double cream and double sugar.
New Routes is a Madison, Wisconsin-based group that works to improve
the health of immigrants through immigrant-created media. In addition
to a Minneapolis/St. Paul collaborative, New Routes works with immigrant
groups in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Philadelphia
and San Francisco.
Learn
to Apply Health Literacy Principles
Get free training on use of health literacy self-assessment tools
to improve primary care quality during a Diversity Rx webinar,
scheduled for 2-3:15 p.m.,
Thur., Feb. 4.
People need to understand health information to make informed decisions
about their care. Learn how you can help by learning how to identify
areas of your primary care practice that need improvement. In this
webinar, nationally recognized experts will walk you through using
a new health literacy practice assessment tool, and discuss a pediatric
practice’s experience in using the tool.
Presenters include Cindy Brach, Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ), Dr. Darren DeWalt, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, and Dr. Laura Noonan, Levine Children’s Hospital
at Carolinas Medical.
Join
the Refugee Health Resources Group
The Refugee Healing Resources Group meets monthly to discuss the psychological,
emotional and spiritual healing needs of refugee and immigrant populations in
the metro area. This multicultural group includes mental health, social service
and health care professionals, community healers, religious leaders; and anyone
else interested in improved access to psychological, emotional and spiritual
healing
Meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month, 3-5 p.m.at the Minnesota Church
Center, 122 West Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. For more information, contact Sue
Johnston via email, or call
612-230-3213. The discussion topic at the Jan. 19 meeting will be psychological
trauma, post-traumatic
stress disorder and somatic modalities of healing.
Get Emergency
Info in ASL, Braille Help
special needs patients be prepared for emergencies with video and
downloadable print information from the Northeast Texas Public Health
District, available for free
use at this link. ASL interperters present information on food
safety, flooding, storms, infectious disease, basic first aid and
general emergency preparation.The videos include an English language
voice over, plus text. Also available are Braille formatted and large
print emergency preparedness documents.
Learn about Health Reform, Disparities
The major health reform bills now pending before Congress include
provisions that could help or hinder efforts to reduce disparities
affecting racial and
ethnic minorities. Racial and ethnic minorities represent only one-third of
the total U.S. population, but comprise more than half of the
nation’s uninsured.
Get the Word on Language Access Amid
growing concerns about racial, ethnic and language disparities in
health care, the Joint Commission and the federal government's Office
for Civil Rights have released Improving Patient-Provider Communication,
a video on language access in health care organizations.
The video identifies tools that health care organizations can use
to build effective language access programs. It also addresses the
obligations of health care organizations concerning translation of
written documents. Watch
the video here.
Easy Access to H1N1 Videos
Find simple H1N1 influenza videos from Minnesota's Emergency and Community Health
Outreach (ECHO) here.
The short clips include these titles: Stay at Home, Vaccination Priority
Groups, Hand Washing, and Get Your Shot. They're available in Arabic,
English, Hmong, Karen, Khmer, Lao, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Free Cultural Competence Training Tools
Free courses with CME, CE or CNE creit for physicians & pharmacists
sponsored by the US Office of Minority Health (OMH) offer the latest
resources
and tools to promote cultural competency in health care.
They include A Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care,;
Culturally Competent Nursing Care: A Cornerstone of Caring. Learn more
here.
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