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CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS,
PART 2
LIST OF POTENTIAL PRESENTATION TOPICS
The Call for Presentation Proposals is CLOSED.
The deadline for receipt of presentation proposals was Feb.
28, 2006.
In consultation with our National Advisory Group and presenters and attendees
from the last four conferences, we have compiled a list of potential presentation
topics for the 2006 conference. This list is not intended to be exhaustive,
but can be used by potential speakers to guide their submissions to our
Call for Proposals. We will be especially interested in presentations
related to the main theme of the conference, “Building the essential
link between quality, cultural competence and disparities reduction.”
The Relationship between Quality and Cultural Competence and Disparities
Reduction
We are looking for sessions and presentations on organizational practices,
policies (institutional or governmental), and research that explicitly
make a connection between quality goals and cultural competence or disparity
reduction. For instance, these may include initiatives that link the quality
domains identified by the Institute of Medicine (patient centeredness,
safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency and equality) with activities
described in the CLAS Standards (culturally sensitive interventions, language
assistance, and organizational supports for cultural/linguistic competence).
We are also interested in efforts to develop data systems on quality of
care that incorporate these diversity dimensions and reports of how existing
quality of care programs are expanding their efforts to include cultural
and linguistic diversity.
For more information, please also see the overview of the report, Establishing
the Importance of Cultural Competence in Health Care Quality Improvement
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Focus on: The Pacific Northwest as a Trailblazer in Culturally Competent
Care
- Presentations on model programs and policies
Focus on: International Models of Culturally Competent Care
- Model programs and policies from the European Migrant-Friendly Hospital
initiative
- Model programs and policies from Pacific Rim countries
Designing and Implementing Culturally Competent Programs
- CLAS best practices, and issues related to implementation
- Measuring organizational cultural competence
- Integrating cultural competence into larger organizational objectives
/ initiatives
- Getting and keeping administrative support for CLAS programs
- Improving the cultural competence of non-clinical units (reception,
financial offices, etc)
- Designing health systems and programs for specific cultures: what
components affect an individual’s healthcare experience, what works,
and what is transferable to multicultural health settings.
- Involving communities in health planning
- How to build community coalitions with providers, interpreters, and
ethnic communities to address access, quality and workforce issues
Improving Linguistic Access
- Comparative studies of different interpretation modalities (face-to-face,
video, other remote)
- Update on certification of interpreters and/or translators.
- Improving attitudes among staff about providing language services
- Testing language proficiency and clinical knowledge among interpreters
and bilingual staff
- How to build coalitions to advocate for Medicaid funding for language
services, including grass roots advocacy, developing an administrative/legislative
advocacy agenda, and making the case for language services in tough
budgetary times
- Improving the availability/quality of on-site interpreters in rural
areas or for languages less commonly needed.
- Updates from national initiatives (Hablamos Juntos, Commonwealth,
OMH, state refugee health coordinators, etc)
- Effectively training/using bilingual staff, as interpreters or as
direct communicators
- Strategies for sharing translated materials
- Issues around developing and implementing translated signage
- Quality control in translation: training, evaluation of existing materials,
translation v. original language development, back translation and other
methods, use of online translators
- Advances in health literacy for diverse populations
Designing Care that is Culturally Competent
- Cultural competence in emergency preparedness (pandemics, bioterrorism,
etc)
- How to handle issues of religion and spirituality in care-giving
- Culturally competent patient assessment/intake, treatment planning
and discharge planning
- Case studies in cross-cultural ethics
- How to handle the involvement of children in care (as interpreters
or cultural brokers)
- Ethnopharmacology
- Improving treatment and medication adherence
Models of Culturally Competent Care for Specific Conditions or Specific
Populations (we are especially interested in sessions that summarize
the history, successes and failures in dealing with specific conditions/populations,
and can discuss proposed new approaches in that context)
- Mental health
- People with disabilities
- Elderly (e.g. working with caregivers from different cultures; dementia;
palliative care)
- Focus on specific ethnic groups
- Immigrants and refugees, especially obtaining information about and
planning services for newly-arrived or unfamiliar cultures
- Perceptions of health/health care by different racial/ethnic groups
- Updates on health disparities for different groups
- Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender (LGBT) health care issues
Training and Supporting Culturally Competent Health Care Professionals
- Cultural competence training by professional role: frontline staff,
allied health, nursing, specialty care
- How to change attitudes, and deal with provider resistance to cultural
competence training
- Acknowledging and moving beyond racism
- Integrating cultural competence training of health professions students
into other humanistic curricula
- Comparisons/validations of different training techniques and programs
- Train the trainer workshops
- Creative use of bilingual staff and foreign-trained health professionals
- Using patient navigators and other cultural support staff
Data, Evaluation, Research
- How to collect race/ethnicity/language data – issues for patients,
providers and organizations
- How to integrate race/ethnicity/language data into existing data systems
- Cross-cultural measurement issues, and improving the validity/reliability
of standard measurement tools
- Research review: the top studies that point to a relationship between
CLAS and outcomes
- How to evaluate the effectiveness of programs / curricula –tools
and designs
- Inclusion of diverse populations in research
- Making the link between interpretation and improved adherence / other
outcomes
Policy and other big picture issues
- Updates on state legislation related to linguistic access and cultural
competence
- How to network with and educate state and federal health officials
on the value of cultural competence
- Impact of state and federal budget constraints on funding for health
care for diverse populations
- Update on CLAS-related state and federal policy initiatives and advocacy
efforts
- Updates on making the business case for cultural competence
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