In the past 10 years, there has been a profusion of research in the field of cultural and linguistic competency, particularly on the capability of language services to improve the quality of patient ...

Dr Sinéad Donohue elaborates on the postgraduate training needs assessment, currently being carried out, on the need for clinical cultural competency training. Culture emerges from a blend of many ...

The Asia-Pacific region has a very complicated relationship with the countries next door and further afield, presenting pitfalls for unwary brands. Having worked in Asia for over two decades, I've ...

They say cultural insensitivity, among the many other wrongs and abuses, has caused particular pain over the years, decades and centuries. Government agencies admit to this as well. Click on audio tab ...

“The world felt larger when the internet was small,” writes Hal Conick, “Twenty years ago, 33 percent of internet users were in the U.S. while less than 1.5 percent of the world’s population was ...

An integrated pattern of learned beliefs, values and behaviors that can be shared among groups Elements of cultural competency: personal identification, language, thoughts, communications, actions, ...

“I felt super lucky:” Luck and administrative burden in cancer-related financial hardship. Introducing the SEER-Medicare-Housing and Urban Development data linkage: A novel resource for examining the ...

New Jersey has recently enacted legislation, signed into law by Governor Codey in March 2005, mandating that physicians in the state receive cultural competency training.[1] It is the first state to ...