Library Guides: Cultural Competency in Healthcare: Hispanic American/Latino

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Chartbook for Hispanic Health Care 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report "This Hispanic Health Care chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR). The QDR includes annual reports to Congress mandated in the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-129). This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of Hispanic health care from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of Hispanic health care. A PowerPoint version is also available that users can download for presentations."
Office of Minority Health: Hispanic/Latino Profile
The Office is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities. OMH programs address disease prevention, health promotion, risk reduction, healthier lifestyle choices, use of health care services, and barriers to health care.
The Child Trends Hispanic Institute -
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that provides valuable information and insights on the well-being of children and youth. The Child Trends Hispanic Institute provides research-based information and guidance to policymakers, practitioners, the media, corporate leaders, and private philanthropy who work to improve outcomes for Latino children and youth in the U.S.
Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States
Pew Research Center report from April 19, 2016.

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Barriers to Calling 911 and Learning and Performing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Residents of Primarily Latino, High-Risk Neighborhoods in Denver, Colorado STUDY OBJECTIVE: Individuals in neighborhoods composed of minority and lower socioeconomic status populations are more likely to have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest event, less likely to have bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed, and less likely to survive. Latino cardiac arrest victims are 30% less likely than whites to have bystander CPR performed. The goal of this study is to identify barriers and facilitators to calling 911, and learning and performing CPR in 5 low-income, Latino neighborhoods in Denver, CO. PMID: 25481112

Multicultural Health by Lois Ritter; Nancy Hoffman Multicultural Health serves as a comprehensive guide for healthcare workers in any cultural community. By focusing on differences in cultural beliefs about health and illness and models for cross-cultural health and communication, this text helps students and professionals learn effective ways to implement health promotion programs and program evaluation across cultures. See the chapter: "Hispanic and Latino American population.s"
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780763757427
Publication Date: 2009-07-21