How to serve our ethnic minority communities better

Pardon our dust: remodeling care to serve you better

Overview The Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid), a national leader in health-care transformation, contracts with 16 regional Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) to provide integrated medical, behavioral, and dental care in patientcentered primary care homes. The transformation seeks increased access to primary care, better control of healthcare cost increases, and improved health outcomes using gl...

Palliative Care, Cancer and Minority Ethnic Communities

Ethnic Minority Communities and Sport Background information

In 1989 the English Sports Council introduced its first policy targeting people from ethnic minority communities. This was followed in 1992 by a statement that recognised existing inequalities of opportunity in sport for people from ethnic minority communities and acknowledged a duty to work towards the elimination of racial disadvantage and discrimination in sport, and promote good race relati...

Meeting the needs of minority ethnic communities.

Concentrating on exotica and cultural differences merely allows commissioners and providers to ignore general health needs and blame the communities themselves when they receive poor quality services. We now have to move forward if we are to achieve an improvement in their health care. We are not talking of an insignificant minority, but nearly one in 10 of all children. Clearly real difference...

Child Abuse in Ethnic Minority and Immigrant Communities

A complete Works Cited list begins on page 41. Mention of commercial products does not indicate endorsement. Faculty Alice Yick Flanagan, PhD, MSW, received her Master’s in Social Work from Columbia University, School of Social Work. She has clinical experience in mental health in correctional settings, psychiatric hospitals, and community health centers. In 1997, she received her PhD from UCLA...