TB & Cultural Competency

This print resource was developed for the public health workforce and other healthcare providers. It is intended as a tool to begin to explore the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for cultural competency in general, with a focus on TB control activities. The guide utilizes a culture general perspective and includes a self-assessment tool, teaching cases and links to other cultural competency resources.

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Contents:

• Assessing Ourselves
• The Contact Investigation: From the Individual to the Community
• Organizational Cultural Competence

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Contents:

• From Isolation to Vocation
• Photovoice: A Medium for Global and Community-Based Advocacy
• Advocacy Benefits People Living with TB
• Advocacy Benefits TB Programs
• What's In A Name?
• Power of Social Support

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Contents:

• Finding My Voice
• Extrapulmonary TB
• Confronting Stigma
• Advocacy in the Global Struggle against TB
• Resources for Advocacy
• Works Cited

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Contents:

• No Woman Is An Island
• Stigma and TB
• Spiritual Life and Healing in Haitian Communities

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Contents:

• Complex Caring: The Challenge of TB-HIV Co-Infection
• Self-Awareness
• Psychosocial Aspects of HIV Diagnosis
• TB/HIV Co-Infection

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Highlights:

• A Family Affair
• Diabetes and TB Elimination in Native Americans
• American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) Population at a Glance

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Highlights:

• Case Study - Engaging the Patient
• Supporting Article: Active Listening
• Supporting Article: Alcohol and Native American Communities

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Highlights:

• My Interpretation
• The Case Against Using Family, Friends, and Minors as Interpreters in Health and Mental Health Care Settings
• 10 Tips for Providers When Working with An Untrained Interpreter

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Highlights:

• Working with Migrant Farm Workers
• A History of Mistrust: Immigrants and "LA MIGRA"
• Isolation of Individuals With Infectious Disease
• Migrant Farm Workers and TB
• Agricultural Workers in the US at a Glance

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Highlights:

• Reaching Out To Burmese Refugees
• Traditional Medicine

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Highlights:

• A Patient-Centered Approach
• Patient-Centeredness and Cultural Competency
• Mental Illness Among Asian-Americans

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Highlights:

• TB and the Subculture of Methamphetamine Users
• Methamphetamine's Effects on the User
• Working with Partner Organizations is Worthwhile
• Ways To Use Incentives Effectively

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Highlights:

• "We Are Going To Go Throught This Together"
• Assess and Respond to Cultural Factors in TB Care

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Highlights:

• Brother to Brother
• Community-Based Organizations Serving African Immigrants
• Cultural Profile: Sub-Saharan Africans

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Highlights:

• Dose by Dose
• Excerpts from: Health needs of asylum seekers and refugees

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Highlights:

• Striving Towards Cultural Competence: An Outreach Perspective
• Six steps you can take toward cultural competence
• Communicating Across Cultures

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