Dimensions of Culture | Cross-Cultural Communications for Health Care Professionals

How the United States is Growing

FACT: 72% of U. S. population growth in the next 20 years will come from immigrants, or the children of immigrants. If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005, and 82% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants. Of the 117 million people added...
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Speaking Across Cultures in the U.S...

FACT: 19% of the U.S. population speaks a primary language at home other than English. The number of people who spoke a language other than English at home grew by 38 percent in the 1980s and by 47 percent in the 1990s. While the population aged 5 and over grew by one-fourth from 1980 to 2000, the number who spoke a language other than English at home more than doubled. The...
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How the United States is Growing
FACT: 72% of U. S. population growth in the next 20 years will come from...

Birth Rates in the United States
FACT: 40% of kids in the Colorado today are born into a family whose culture is...

Speaking Across Cultures in the U.S...
FACT: 19% of the U.S. population speaks a primary language at home other than...

Culture has a dramatic impact on patient care & health outcomes.
Cross-cultural communication skills are critical in all health care settings today.

We provide cross-cultural education, publications, and resources for health care professionals.

Education

Providing culturally-sensitive care depends on health care professionals being able to recognize their own culture, their patient’s culture and how both affect patient-provider communication. With this fundamental premise in mind, we offer cross-cultural communications training for health care professionals.

Publications

A variety of publications are available to supplement our cross-cultural communications trainings for health care professionals. For example, our unique series of articles covers a broad range of both cross-cultural health care and culture specific topics. Check out Article Archives on the main menu where a drop-down menu organizes articles by category. Or, you can simply click the button below.

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