The goal is to improve medication adherence rates among patients of participating providers that receive such cultural competency education. After completing HALI, participating providers will have an increase in their knowledge, skills and competencies related to identifying, assessing and managing such patients, thereby enabling them to build better patient-provider relationships and ultimately improve patient outcomes through increased medication adherence rates.
The composition of the American population continues to change as a result of immigration patterns and significant increases among racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse populations already living in the United States. Despite recent progress in overall national health, disparities in the incidence of illness and death among African Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Alaska Natives, and Pacific Islanders, compared with the US population as a whole, continue to rise.
This multi-interventional approach incorporates various media and learning formats, designed and sequenced to provide learners easy access to their preferred learning formats. These include audiocasts, podcasts, a downloadable transcript series, and a resource guide.
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should demonstrate the ability to
- KNOWLEDGE: Review and discuss current state of disparities in key disease states and the need for cultural competence education among providers
- KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES: Identify, review and analyze quality measures for cultural competence that minimize disparities and improve adherence and persistence rates
- KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND SKILLS: Develop and integrate cultural competent practices for addressing and minimizing health care disparities among ethnic populations
Based on the needs assessment, the intended learners for this activity includes primary care physicians, cardiologists, diabetologists, nephrologists, endocrinologists, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, physician assistants, and pharmacists.
