Providing Culturally Appropriate Health Care: Why It Matters
- Event
- Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Details:
Can you identify unique food traditions among your Hispanic and African American clients and patients as they apply to their health? Do you want to learn advanced counseling techniques that help establish trust with clients who may not be of the same ethnicity? Do you understand how to work effectively with clients with low health literacy?Let these expert presenters give you tips and pointers:
· Sylvia Melendez-Klinger, MS, RD, CPT, founder of Hispanic Food Communications, a food communications and culinary consultancy, Hinsdale, IL
· Jo Ann Pegues, MPA, RD, Project Manager, Center for African American Health, Denver, CO
Coming up soon!
Time: 2-3:30 p.m. Eastern;
1-2:30 p.m. Central;
Noon-1:30 p.m. Mountain;
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Pacific.
2 Hours CPE Level 1
Suggested Learning Need Codes: 1040, 1060, 1130, 6020, 6070, 8015, 4010
Registration Fee: ADA members $109 per listening site; Nonmembers, $175 per listening site through Friday, January 12. After January 12, registration is $134 for members and $200 for nonmembers.
Contact:
KRM Information Services800-775-7654
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/education_9650_ENU_HTML.htm