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Who We AreDiversityRx is produced by:
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Health Care The mission of RCCHC is to improve the accessibility and quality of health care for culturally diverse populations. Our goals are to transform the patient-provider relationship by acknowledging and addressing cultural and linguistic issues, and to support quality health care to diverse populations by promoting best practices, standards of care, and performance measures. Formed in 1995 as a national alliance of individuals and organizations in ethnic communities and health care organized to offer information and technical assistance on linguistic and cultural competence in health care, RCCHC activities include program design, policy development and analysis, research, and community advocacy. Among our many projects, we spearheaded the development of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Health Services (CLAS) for the HHS Office of Minority Health and co-produce the Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations conference series. | ||||||
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Drexel University School of Public Health’s Center for Health Equality Drexel University’s Center for Health Equality (CHE) was established to serve as a major resource for addressing inequities in health and health care. By developing new information and strategies, and creating constructive partnerships with communities, government, health care providers, and other academic centers, CHE works to improve the health and well-being of the city of Philadelphia, the state of Pennsylvania, and the nation. CHE’s projects and activities focus on three major areas – health disparities, cultural competence, and health literacy – and include cultural competence curriculum development and work on integrating disparities reduction, language assistance, and cultural competence into chronic disease management. Specific projects include a 14-year project that tracked the relationship of social and health indicators as related to race, ethnicity and other sociodemographic characteristics in the 100 largest cities, and new support to create a national consensus panel on integrating racially and ethnically diverse communities into emergency preparedness strategies. |
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Editor:Julia
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DiversityRx is sponsored by: |
 The National Conference of State Legislatures |
 Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care |
 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation | |||
