Cultural Sensitivity and US Healthcare Service Delivery System

Wednesday, March 14, 2012: 2:25 PM
Room 205 (Convention Center)
Kamrun N. Begum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Carbondale, IL and Mark J. Kittleson, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
American healthcare system is inadequate to face the projected population change with minorities outnumbering the Caucasians by 2035. Currently, the services available to non-English-speaking clients are inadequate, misleading and often lacking. The audience will get a firsthand impression of a researcher exploring the problem and will join an interactive session toward framing an outline of future initiatives, interventions, which will be useful for policymakers, healthcare service providers, professionals and health educators.