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This chronic condition disproportionately affects low-income and racial/ethnic minority populations due to barriers in access to care.
What is hypertension?
This communication approach involves asking open-ended questions, affirming the patient’s perspective, reflective listening, and summarizing
What is patient-centered communication?
This type of referral is essential when caring for patients experiencing homelessness to address food, shelter, and transportation needs.
What is a social services referral?
This screening process identifies non-medical factors affecting health during clinical encounters.
What is social determinants of health screening?
This care model emphasizes collaboration among providers from multiple disciplines to address complex patient needs.
What is interprofessional team-based care?
This condition has higher morbidity and mortality rates among Black women in the United States.
What is maternal mortality?
This practice helps ensure understanding by asking patients to explain information back in their own words.
What is the teach-back method?
This management strategy emphasizes harm reduction, patient autonomy, and readiness for change in patients with substance use disorders.
What is motivational interviewing?
This intervention improves access to care by bringing services directly to vulnerable populations.
What are mobile health clinics?
This leadership skill involves support for patients and systems changes to improve health equity.
What is advocacy?
This infectious disease remains more prevalent among people experiencing homelessness due to crowded living conditions and limited access to care.
What is tuberculosis?
This concept refers to a provider’s ongoing process of self-reflection and lifelong learning about cultural differences rather than mastery of facts.
What is cultural humility?
This treatment approach combines medication and counseling for substance use disorders.
What is medication-assisted treatment (MAT)?
This approach integrates medical care with social services to improve outcomes in underserved populations.
What is integrated community-based care?
This health professional often coordinates services and helps address social determinants of health.
Who is a social worker?
This chronic illness disproportionately impacts Indigenous and Hispanic populations and is strongly linked to social determinants of health.
What is type 2 diabetes mellitus?
This term describes the ability to communicate health information in a way patients can understand and use to make decisions.
What is health literacy?
This first step improves safety and accuracy when caring for immigrant patients with limited English proficiency.
What is using a trained medical interpreter?
This barrier includes lack of insurance coverage and high out-of-pocket costs that limit access to care.
What is economic instability?
This team member helps patients navigate complex health systems and access community resources
Who is a case manager?
This cancer screening disparity amongst the LGBTQIA2S+ community contributes to later-stage diagnosis and worse outcomes in underserved populations.
What is cervical cancer?
This approach adapts communication style, language, and care planning to respect a patient’s cultural beliefs and preferences.
What is culturally competent care?
This public health strategy is essential for HIV prevention and partner safety.
What is partner notification and counseling?
This determinant involves the ability to obtain nutritious food and is commonly addressed through community food programs.
What is food security?
This communication framework improves clarity and safety during interprofessional handoffs.
What is SBAR?