| Health care professionals looking for a way to provide culturally
and linguistically appropriate services to multicultural populations
can now use a new Web-based tool supported by HRSA.
The Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture features
an interactive quiz that helps users enhance their knowledge
and skills. The guide also has 11 modules on topics
such as common health problems in selected minority, ethnic
and cultural groups, and understanding immigrant, refugee
and minority populations. Each module contains readings,
mnemonics, exercises, references and annotated links to other
relevant Web resources.
The Provider's Guide was developed by Management Sciences
for Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the improvement
of global health. In the near future, MSH intends to
expand the interactivity of this site to include computer-assisted
approaches to build a virtual learning community of experts
and practitioners of culturally and linguistically competent
health care.
The Provider's Guide is a "work in progress"
that will be periodically updated. Comments and suggestions
are encouraged. Contact information is listed on the
first page of the Web site.
To access The Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture,
go to http://erc.msh.org/quality&culture.
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