Achieving Cultural Competency A Case-Based Approach to Training Health Professionals
, by Hark, Lisa; DeLisser, Horace- ISBN: 9781405180726 | 1405180722
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/27/2009
Lisa Hark, PhD, RD is a renowned family nutrition expert with over 20 years of experience in nutrition counseling and promoting the benefits of healthy eating in children and adults. As Director of the Nutrition Education and Prevention Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia for the past 18 years, she is a leading nutrition educator of medical students and doctors. She is currently Project Director for the Cultural Competence Health Disparities Training Program”, a five-year grant funded by the NIH, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Recently, she was the host for season one of the new television series "Honey, We're Killing the Kids", which airs on TLC. Dr. Hark is the editor-in-chief of numerous books including Medical Nutrition and Disease: A Case-Based Approach (Blackwell Publishing), which is now in its 3rd edition and used in many medical schools, physician assistant, nursing and dietetic programs in the US and around the world. In 2004, she edited Cardiovascular Nutrition: Disease Management and Prevention (American Dietetic Association). In 2005 and 2006 she co-authored Nutrition For Life and The Whole Grain Miracle Diet (DK Publishing). Her current book, The Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care, (Blackwell Publishing), will be released in 2007 and is aimed at primary care clinicians, nurses, physician assistants, and nutritionists.
Contributors | p. viii |
CME Disclosure Information | p. xii |
Preface | p. xv |
Foreword | p. xvii |
Acknowledgments | p. xx |
Introduction | p. xxi |
Tools to Assess Cultural Competency Training (TACCT) | p. xxxii |
Ruth Franklin: A 40-year-old African American woman with heart failure | p. 1 |
Carl Jones: A 48-year-old homeless Caucasian man with chest pain and lung cancer | p. 10 |
Maria Morales: A 57-year-old Mexican woman with type 2 diabetes | p. 17 |
Maya Mohammed: A 15-year-old Arab American teenager with leukemia | p. 25 |
Jon Le: A 48-year-old Korean man with cerebral hemorrhage | p. 37 |
Nadia Rosenberg: A 53-year-old Russian woman with drug-resistant tuberculosis | p. 45 |
Isabel Delgado: A 47-year-old Dominican woman with hypertension | p. 55 |
George Dennis: A 35-year-old African American man with AIDS | p. 62 |
Mary Jones: A 2-year-old Caucasian girl with delayed speech development | p. 71 |
Priya Krishnamurthy: A 73-year-old South Asian Indian woman with a stroke | p. 84 |
Carlos Cruz: A 34-year-old Mexican man with sleep apnea and metabolic syndrome | p. 94 |
Denise Smith: A 41-year-old Caucasian woman with asthma | p. 104 |
Mae Ling Chung: A 22-year-old Chinese woman in an arranged marriage | p. 116 |
Earl Collins: A 73-year-old African American man with lung cancer | p. 127 |
Irma Matos: A 66-year-old Ecuadorian woman with type 2 diabetes and hypertension | p. 133 |
Eileen Clark: An 82-year-old African American woman with a stroke | p. 142 |
Leslie O'Malley: A 66-year-old Irish American man with breast cancer | p. 149 |
Juana Caban: A 21-year-old Puerto Rican woman who is pregnant and HIV-positive | p. 155 |
Alice Gregory: A 71-year-old African American woman with aortic stenosis | p. 163 |
Sunil Guha: A 32-year-old South Asian Indian man with metabolic syndrome | p. 169 |
Pepper Hawthorne: A 19-year-old Caucasian woman with a stroke | p. 179 |
Alika Nkuutu: A 24-year-old African woman with sickle cell disease | p. 186 |
Miguel Cortez: A 9-year-old Mexican boy with asthma | p. 192 |
Naomi Fulton: A 49-year-old African American woman with metabolic syndrome | p. 199 |
Bobby Napier: A 68-year-old Caucasian Appalachian man with type 2 diabetes | p. 207 |
Positioning the Interpreter | p. 216 |
Kleinman's Explanatory Model of Illness | p. 217 |
Multiple Choice Questions | p. 220 |
Answers | p. 262 |
Index | p. 267 |
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