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Teaching
Tools, Strategies, and Resources
 This section
provides an overview of areas of awareness, knowledge, and skills
in multicultural health that students in public health
or medical training programs need to acquire. It also offers instructional
vignettes and strategies for building multicultural health into
all aspects of your program.
Areas of Awareness,
Knowledge, and Skills
The following
areas of awareness, knowledge, and skills were selected to highlight
in this module. This list
is not exhaustive.
Faculty
are encouraged to adapt and enhance the following characteristics
based on the needs, interests, and areas of focus within their
respective disciplines and training programs.
Awareness of:
- The public
health implications in an increasingly multicultural society
- Disparities
in health and mental health status and their underlying causes
among racial, ethnic, and other cultural
groups
- The interaction
of social, economic, biological, and environmental factors
that impact the health
and well-being
of communities
- The influence
of the built environment and other place-based factors on health
and mental health
status
- Legal requirements
for providing equitable services and supports to culturally
and linguistically
diverse groups
- The influence
of immigration status, shifting community demographics, and
acculturation
on
health and mental
status
- That public
health interventions must address individual, group, community,
and system levels
- The economic
rationale and implications for improving capacity to attract
and retain
a diverse and
culturally and linguistically
competent workforce, and to serve and
satisfy multicultural populations
- The necessity
to be aware of one’s own culture and world
view
- Cultural
self-assessment as a tool to explore varying world views
- The
importance of cultural humility and the need for lifelong
learning
- The unique
needs, challenges, and strategies of a diverse workforce;
- The
need for collaboration among and across broad sectors of
society (e.g.
public health,
mental
health, education,
business, political, recreation,
and community) to address multicultural
health effectively
- Communities
must play a major role in identifying priority
health
and mental
health issues,
in designing interventions,
in advocating
for change, and in having
ownership of the outcomes
- The importance
of developing upstream interventions
- The importance
of early intervention including
a focus on informing,
engaging, and empowering
youth
to address
their own health and
well-being and that of
their communities
- Culturally
related risk, protective, and mediating
factors
- The importance
and challenges of accurate
data collection
for measuring
and monitoring
health
and mental health
status of multicultural
populations, for
evaluating interventions, and
for enabling systems
to provide
culturally and
linguistically competent
services and
supports
- The
critical role of information technology
in enabling
systems, services,
and supports.
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