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Distance EDU on Demand: Dorcey Applyrs on cultural competence in health care delivery
Excelsior Life
English - March 13, 2014 19:23 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCourses Education academics college distance education excelsior graduate higher learning student Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dorcey Applyrs, faculty program director for the Excelsior College School of Health Sciences, joins the podcast to discuss her work in the HIV/AIDs field, institutionalized problems within the health care system, cultural competence, and other health care issues in culturally diverse populations.
0:58 Drawn to the field of public health.
5:11 Researching the socioeconomic root causes of HIV/AIDS.
7:20 Cultural diversity and delivering culturally competent health care.
9:30 The relationship between cultural practices and health.
11:20 Cultural competency: Rating the US health care system.
13:43 Demographic differences.
16:55 How can patients take more control over their health care?
19:00 What does reform look like?