The purpose of this course is to provide public health practitioners with the awareness and knowledge to incorporate diversity and cultural competency concepts, tools, and techniques into their daily work. It is expected that by the end of this course that each participant will be conversant in issues related to culture and health, health disparities, and community health models designed to close the gap in health disparities.
Learning Objectives:
- To describe the demographic trends and epidemiological trends related to diverse populations in the United States and abroad
- To compare and contrast diversity and cultural competency in the public health context
- To identify a framework to design culturally competent public health care services for diverse populations
Source:
South Central Public Health Partnership
Topics:
Cultural Competence
Health Equity
Strategic Planning
Benchmarks:
Quality Improvement/Evaluation
The Maternal and Child Health Leadership Skills Development Series brings leadership concepts to life in an MCH context, allowing you to conduct your own training sessions, within your own time frames and in your own settings.
The Maternal and Child Health Leadership Skills Development Series is a set of training modules designed for use in small groups. Each module offers a mix of presentation and exploration in different learning formats:
• Video “mini-lecture”
• Interactive group discussion questions and exercises
• Case study with discussion prompts and hands-on exercises
• Video clips from interviews with MCH leaders
• Individual self-reflection exercises
• Individual leadership development planning worksheet
Source:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Topics:
Communication
Community and Organizational Partnerships
Cultural Competence
Group Processes/Facilitation
Health Equity
Health Literacy
Leadership
Social Determinants of Health
Strategic Planning
Benchmarks:
CAN Implementation
Quality Improvement/Evaluation
Beyond Access: Inequalities in the generation, manipulation, and distribution of health information and the capacity to act on health information among social and cultural groups in the United States is discussed in an audio presentation by Dr. Kasiomayajula Viswanath. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research focuses on how inequalities in communication are associated with health disparities.
Source:
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Topics:
Communication
Community and Organizational Partnerships
Cultural Competence
Group Processes/Facilitation
Health Equity
Health Literacy
Leadership
Social Determinants of Health
Strategic Planning
Benchmarks:
CAN Implementation
Quality Improvement/Evaluation
