Title
Integrating Culture and Healing: Meeting the Health Care Needs of a Multicultural Community
Department/School
Social Work
Date of this version
1996
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Delivering health care to culturally diverse patients is fast becoming an integral part of patient care - a change driven by shifting demographics in Minnesota and especially in the Twin Cities metro area. At United Hospital and Children's Health Care-St. Paul, ethnographic research is being used to create cross-cultural health care information systems that address the needs of providers and patients. These include an easy-to-use computer-based information system, brown bag seminars, and cross-cultural skills training. This article discusses the hospitals' efforts to identify provider needs, collect cultural information, and disseminate that information in a manner that supports quality and cost-effective health care delivery.
Volume
79
Published in
Minnesota Medicine
Citation/Other Information
Johnson, A., & Baboila, G. (1996). Integrating Culture and Healing: Meeting the Health Care Needs of a Multicultural Community. Minnesota Medicine, 79, 41-45.