Cultural and Linguistic Competence: A Strategy to Address Health Disparities and Achieve Health Equity. Part 2 -- To include How culture can affect an intervention and understanding implicit bias. Presenter: Dr. Pierluigi Mancini, PhD

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Cultural and Linguistic Competence: A Strategy to address  Health Disparities and Achieve Health Equity. 

Workshop Description: 

Cultural and Linguistic competence (CLC) has gained attention as a potential strategy to  reducing health disparities and achieving health equity in health care. This two part  workshop will examine cultural factors that can affect health and health care, such as  language, communication styles, beliefs, implicit bias, attitudes, and behaviors.  Additionally, it will examine the cultural aspects that are important when serving the  Hispanic/Latino community.  

This workshop will examine how cultural competence can affect delivery of services in  your practice and provide tools to identify and overcome barriers to reduce disparities  through culturally and linguistically responsive and unbiased quality care. 

Goals/Objectives of Presentation: At the completion of the workshop, participants will  be able to: 

Part 1 

1. Define Health Equity and Health Disparities 

2. Identify the Hispanic/Latino Community 

3. Understand the concepts of Culture and cultural competence 

Part 2 

4. Describe how culture can affect an intervention 

5. Understand the concept of Implicit bias 

6. Receive actionable steps to improve delivery of service