Enhancing the cultural competency of health care organizations

Advances in Health Care Management

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 43-67

  Weech Maldonado, Robert ^a   Al Amin, Mona ^a   Nishimi, Robyn Y ^a   Salam, Fatema ^a  

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Author keywords

Cultural competency; Diversity management; Racial ethnic minorities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHILOSOPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80055075360     PISSN: 14748231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1474-8231(2011)0000010009     Document Type: Article

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