BACKGROUND Patient-centered culturally sensitive health care (PC-CSHC) is a best practice approach for improving health-care delivery to culturally diverse populations and reducing health disparities. Despite patients' report that cultural sensitivity by health-care office staff is an important aspect of PC-CSHC, the majority of available research on PC-CSHC focuses exclusively on health-care p...

BACKGROUND Live kidney transplantation (LKT) is underutilized, particularly among ethnic/racial minorities. The effectiveness of culturally sensitive educational and behavioral interventions to encourage patients' early, shared (with family and health care providers) and informed consideration of LKT and ameliorate disparities in consideration of LKT is unknown. METHODS/DESIGN We report the p...

PURPOSE There are significant disparities in access to health care amongst Aboriginal Canadians. The purpose of this study was to determine whether tele-ophthalmology services, provided to Aboriginal Canadians in a culturally-sensitive community-based clinic, could overcome social and cultural barriers in ways that would be difficult in the traditional hospital-based setting. METHODS The Abor...

The Asian population in the United States is the fastest growing minority; consequently it behooves psychiatric nurses and other mental health professionals to be aware of symptom presentation of emotional problems that may differ from those of other population groups. Specific syndromes, psychiatric disorders, and symptoms that commonly present as physical disorders are discussed. Recommended ...

In this article, lessons learned from the Chronic Care Model are discussed by addressing provider factors that may affect the delivery of care and patient adherence. Specifically, issues related to the provision of culturally competent and sensitive care are discussed in terms of race-concordant and discordant patient-provider relationships. Strategies for beginning and continuing the process o...

Objectives Transgender individuals commonly experience barriers to quality health care and may suffer from unique musculoskeletal complaints. Although these needs are often inadequately addressed within the health care system, they could be attended to by the chiropractic community. This narrative review describes best practices for delivering culturally sensitive care to transgender patients w...

Service learning, international, capacity building, cultural competence, nurse practitioner education, Central America, graduate nursing, nursing clinical The increasing diversity of the U.S. population (Passel & Cohn, 2008) requires a culturally sensitive health care workforce. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2011) addresses the need to provide culturally sensitive care and su...