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Annotation: This report summarizes agency efforts to provide health care services for Native youth and their lessons learned. Topics include health issues Native youth commonly face, ways youth use health services, youth-friendly services and ways to provide them, and integrating Native culture and traditional practices with medical practice. The report concludes with a discussion of areas and issues that need to be addressed in order to increase the number of youth accessing services, as well as suggestions for other agencies and clinics trying to establish health services for Native youth.

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Keywords: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Barriers, Cultural factors, Culturally competent services, Ethnic groups, Health care utilization, Health services delivery, Service integration, Youth

Annotation: This document summarizes findings from a review of selected research related to family-centered care (FCC) for children with special health care needs (CSHCN). Contents include highlights from studies that examine the following components of FCC: family-provider partnerships, coordinated care, racial/ethnic and linguistic barriers, and culturally competent care. It also examines access, unmet need and satisfaction for CSHCN and outcomes of FCC and medical homes.

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Keywords: Adolescents, Children, Culturally competent services, Ethnic factors, Families, Family centered care, Health care delivery, Language barriers, Literature reviews, Parent professional relations, Service coordination, Special health care needs

Annotation: This series of fact sheets help clinicians, patient advocates, and other stakeholders improve care for individuals with low health literacy. The fact sheets define health literacy; describe ways to identify low health literacy; provide strategies to improve print and oral communication for low-literate consumers; provide information about the intersection of health literacy and culture; and highlight key policies relating to health literacy.

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Keywords: Consumer educatio, Cultural factors, Health behavior, Health literacy, Health services delivery, Literacy education, Low literacy, Patient education materials, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This website provides information about Hispanic adolescents in the United States related to health care coverage, adolescent pregnancy, educational attainment, mental health, substance abuse, and weight. For each topic, links to information and programs are included. Background information about this population is also included.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Adolescent attitudes, Adolescent behavior, Adolescent pregnancy, Adolescents, Cultural factors, Educational attainment, Mental health, Ethnic factors, Health insurance, Hispanic Americans, Obesity, Programs, Substance abuse

Annotation: This report provides an overview of how the Food and Drug Administration operates in terms of its communications and describes how the agency communicates the benefits and risks of medical products to health care providers and patients, especially underrepresented populations, including racial subgroups. Topics include communications with the general public, including MedWatch, social media, staff and advisory committees, and external stakeholder meetings; as well as designing communications for populations with limited English proficiency, health literacy, and outreach. Appendices include highlights of the risk communications strategic plan, and the Office of Minority Health web site on Federal Health Information.

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Keywords: Communication, Cultural competency, Federal agencies, Health literacy, Limited English speakers, Public health, Racial factors, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Annotation: This blueprint presents a vision for the future of child welfare that all children will grow up safely in loving families and supportive communities. The blueprint is intended to be a catalyst for change and also to serve as the basis for updating and creating Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) program-specific standards of excellence. The blueprint discusses CWLA vision and values and presents eight core principles and standards on the following topics: rights of children; shared responsibility and leadership; engagement/participation; supports and services; quality improvement; work force; race, ethnicity, and culture; and funding and resources.

Keywords: Child welfare, Children, Children's rights, Communities, Cultural factors, Ethnic factors, Families, Family support services, Financing, Leadership, Programs, Racial factors, Safety, Standards

Annotation: This guide provides information about the importance of fathers in the lives of their children and identifies potential consequences of non-involvement. The guide also offers strategies for systems and families to help fathers become more involved. Topics include statistics about the presence or absence of fathers in their children's lives, why children need fathers to be actively involved, ways for systems of care to best support fathers' involvement in individual- and family-service plans, how systems of care can involve fathers in all dimensions of development, different cultural perspectives on fatherhood, the role of young fathers, grandfather involvement, and the role of fathers in the child welfare system.

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Keywords: Adolescent fathers, Child development, Child welfare agencies, Cultural factors, Families, Father child relations, Fathers, Grandparents, Parenting skills, Service delivery systems

Annotation: This report focuses on oral health innovations that integrate service delivery and work force models to reduce or eliminate socioeconomic, geographic, and cultural barriers to care. Topics include implementing multiple strategies to increase the number of children from families with low incomes who access preventive care and also to engage families and communities in investing in and prioritizing oral health.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Attitudes, Children, Cultural barriers, Geographic barriers, Low income groups, Model programs, Oral health, Prevention services, Service integration, Socioeconomic factors, Work force

Annotation: This blueprint describes a framework and multistep process to reduce disparities and disproportionalities in human services and behavioral health care. The steps discussed include (1) readiness, (2) community engagement, (3) identification, (4) assessment, (5) intervention, (6) evaluation/continuous quality improvement, (7) replication, and (8) sustainability. A case study in a hypothetical community is included.

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Keywords: Quality assurance, Access to health care, Communities, Data, Statistical data, Community programs, Cultural competence, Cultural factors, Ethnic factors, Human services, Intervention, Prevention, Program evaluation, Racial factors, Racism, Treatment

Annotation: This report summarizes a workshop convened in November 2012 to discuss the sizable health inequities affecting Native American, Alaska Native, First Nation, and Pacific Islander populations and the potential role of culture in helping to reduce those inequities. This report summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop and includes case studies that examine programs aimed at diabetes prevention and management and cancer prevention and treatment programs.

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Keywords: Minority health, Alaska natives, American Indians, Barriers, Cancer, Cultural factors, Diabetes mellitus, Disease prevention, Health status disparities, Pacific Islanders, Prevention services, Preventive health services, Socioeconomic factors

Annotation: This workbook draws on the experiences and lessons of numerous communities working to advance place-based prevention efforts. It is designed to guide community health practitioners who want to learn more about the role of community culture in environmental change efforts. Contents include a series of best practices emerging from community prevention initiatives and related literature; examples of organizations and initiatives that have placed community culture at the core of their work; key questions and considerations to help practitioners design effective policy, systems, and environmental improvement initiatives that acknowledge and reflect the community's culture; and resources, toolkits, websites, and a glossary that provide further information about the role of community culture.

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Keywords: Community action, Cultural factors, Local initiatives, Model programs, Prevention, Program improvement, Resources for professionals, Social change

Annotation: This website provides information and resources related to efforts to increase the number of students and faculty from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in all facets of the public health and maternal and child health (MCH) work force and to enhance the learning environment by ensuring cultural competence within all components of training programs. Specifically, the website focuses on mentoring as a strategy to support racially and ethnically diverse students and faculty who are underrepresented within MCH training programs. The site includes links to a review of peer-reviewed and gray literature, a summary of information from listening sessions with students and faculty, and a list of multi-institutional or national programs that support mentoring efforts.

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Keywords: Cultural competence, Ethnic factors, MCH training, MCH training programs, Mentors, National programs, Programs, Public health, Racial factors, Research, Students, Training

Annotation: This report, which focuses on the unmet need for primary health care in the United States, discusses why this need exists, contributing factors, and costs and consequences. The report presents community health centers as a solution to this problem and discusses identifying primary care needs, how health centers can meet these needs, the trend toward health centers filling the primary health care gap, and what still needs to be done.

Keywords: Access to health care, Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Community health centers, Community health services, Costs, Culturally competent services, Geographic factors, Cultural factors, High risk groups, Immigrants, Income factors, Low income groups, Poverty, Primary care, Underserved communities, Uninsured persons

Annotation: This mobile application captures the contents of a National of Library Medicine exhibition. The app lets users explore video interviews with tribal elders, healers, and others who practice traditional medicine, Western medicine, or a combination of both. The content relates to five major themes: individual, community, tradition, healing, and nature. Interviews can be searched by keyword, interviewee name, or topic. Other videos provide an exhibition overview and highlights of the 4,400-mile journey of a totem pole specially crafted for the exhibition, from Washington state to Maryland.

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Keywords: Alaska natives, American Indians, Cultural beliefs, Cultural factors, Hawaiians, Health education, Minority health, Mobile applications, Multimedia, Public health, Traditional medicine

Annotation: This report describes the recommendations of an expert panel to ensure that students acquire cultural competencies in their chosen fields to prepare them for successful practice, including the development and delivery of appropriate health care and population health programs, services, and policies for an increasingly diverse U.S. population. Contents include recommendations for embedding cultural competence education within and across curricula of medicine and public health, exemplary case studies, and a road map for the future.

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Keywords: Cultural competency, Cultural sensitivity, Culturally competent services, Curricula, Ethnic factors, Ethnic groups, Medical students, Professional education, Public health education, Racial factors

Annotation: This paper examines work focused on improving the understanding of child abuse and neglect, basic human development, effective program planning, and promising systemic reforms. Contents include trends in advances in neuroscience and the developing brain in children; social context and culture, promising community prevention strategies, federal policy initiatives in public investment toward evidence-based programs, addressing needs of new parents and young children; service delivery processes and model program quality, maximizing population-level change, and the opportunities offered by new technologies.

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Keywords: Child abuse, Child neglect, Cultural factors, Early childhood development, Literature reviews, Maltreated children, Parent child relations, Parenting attitudes, Program development, Research, Social factors

Annotation: This document summarizes a series of panel discussions conducted by the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs at four National Fetal-Infant Mortality Review Program annual conferences in 1998, 2001, 2004, and 2007. The content is drawn from the panelists' personal experiences with and professional expertise in the cultural traditions that may affect a family's expression of grief and loss. Topics include history and culture, general bereavement customs, service delivery issues, recommendations for practice, and implications for providers. Cultures and religions described include African American, specific tribes of American Indians, Hispanic/Latino, Chinese, Hmong, Iranian, Jewish, Muslim, and deaf and hard-of-hearing, [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Cultural factors, Culturally competent services, Ethnic groups, Grief, Infant death, Perinatal bereavement, Religion, Service delivery

Annotation: This compilation of 12 papers examines the distinct needs of children in the southwestern United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico) and provides ideas for meeting those needs. Topics include changing demographics; inclusive, culturally relevant, and family-focused policy solutions; successful programs; and establishing common-ground for addressing challenges facing children in the Southwest.

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Keywords: Children, Culturally competent services, Family centered care, Language, Model programs, Policy development, Regional factors, Sociocultural factors, Trends

Annotation: This toolkit was developed to help individuals, organizations, and policy makers raise awareness about health disparities, engage others in conversations about the problems and solutions, and take action for change. It includes descriptions of health disparities and their causes; provides tools to guide efforts to promote programs and policies for change, and offers information to help individuals and organizations address health in their communities. Individual sections discuss health disparities and the economy, the health system, and the Affordable Care Act. Talking points; guidelines on writing a statement of support; media outreach tools; and information on joining the National Partnership for Action are also included.

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Keywords: Communication, Cultural factors, Economic factors, Ethnic factors, Health, Health promotion, Health status disparities, National initiatives, Outreach, Public awareness materials, Racial factors, Reform

Annotation: This guide to health disparities resources lists contact information for Office of Minority Health state and regional coordinators, state public health minority liaisons, federal information centers and clearinghouses, and national organizations, categorized by target population. Included are sources of culturally-sensitive health materials and a section on minority colleges and universities.

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Keywords: Cultural factors, Directories, Ethnic factors, Federal initiatives, Federal programs, Health status disparities, Minority health, Racial factors, Resource materials, Resources for professionals