A core mission of health professions schools is to educate and train a workforce that will be optimally prepared to provide health care and public health services for the diverse communities that they serve. It is important to create and develop a health care workforce who can understand and assist in the battle against health care disparities. For health care workers and health profession scho...

BACKGROUND As the diversity of the European population evolves, measuring providers' skillfulness in cross-cultural care and understanding what contextual factors may influence this is increasingly necessary. Given limited information about differences in cultural competency by provider role, we compared cross-cultural skillfulness between physicians and nurses working at a Swiss university hos...

OBJECTIVE Identify factors associated with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among African Americans with multiple sclerosis (MS). DESIGN A survey cohort was recruited from the Registry of the North American Research Committee On Multiple Sclerosis (NARCOMS) Project. Data were collected from 131 African Americans with MS, with 111 participants providing all data needed for analyses of ph...

AIM This study examined how one pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing program at a public university in the southeastern United States integrated concepts and issues of culture and culturally competent practice into its curriculum. BACKGROUND Teaching and learning about culturally competent practice in pre-licensure nursing programs are essential to ensure a culturally competent health care wor...

An increased demand for long-term care services coupled with the decreased availability of informal (family) carers in many industrialised countries has led to the employment of growing numbers of ‘migrant care workers ’. Little is known about this heterogeneous group or of their experience of employment in longterm care. Providing an important insight into a hitherto little researched and poor...