Providing
patients with quality health care,
helping people to change risky behavior
patterns, and understanding the
benefits of healthy living are all
hallmarks of the kind of good practices
health care professionals in the
United States strive to achieve.
Unfortunately, practitioners in
this country also face many unique
obstacles to the level of care they
would like to deliver. Some of these
obstacles involve cultural misunderstandings
and miscommunications with patient
populations whose languages, experiences,
and backgrounds differ from those
of their providers.
This
primer is designed to help health
care professionals better understand,
and more effectively respond to
the growing needs of over 30 million
Hispanics in the United States.
It should facilitate greater access
to, and utilization of, health and
human services for this patient
population, as well as provide useful
suggestions on improving one-to-one
provider-patient interactions. The
primer is a distillation of information
health care providers may need to
assure delivery of the best possible
care to Hispanic clients in a variety
of clinical, prevention, and social
service settings. |
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This
primer is a distillation of information
health care providers may need to
assure delivery of the best possible
care to Hispanic clients in a variety
of clinical, prevention, and social
service settings. |