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Cultural Factors in Maternal and Child Health

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Culture is a learned and acquired set of behavior, belief and practices that impact how we behave in numerous ways that can affect our health. Issues such as access to health care and even what it means to be healthy vary by culture, may even vary enormously within cultures, depending upon factors both within, and from outside the particular group.

This course will introduce the subject of cultural and social determinants of maternal and child health in the present society, including worldviews on health perspectives (wellness versus illness), and address the impact of emerging demographic changes on systems of care. Participatory exercises will assist in understanding one's own ethnic identity to better understand others, assessing regional and national demographic changes and their implications for practice, and cultural competence skill building.

Cultural competency is not a destination but a lifelong journey. The course looks at cultural competency as having the evolving knowledge and skills used for maintaining a process to increase one's respect, understanding and knowledge of the similarities and differences between oneself and others, in order to create and enhance welcoming health care communities. We invite you on this journey.

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The course is approved for continuing education by the Utah Nurses Association, the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC), the Utah Chapter NASW, and the Commission on Dietetic Registration.

This course can be taken in modules, with continuing education credit from 2.5 contact hours to the full 12 contact hours. Certificates of completion will be awarded per module. Field experience in maternal and child health is assumed, although there are no formal pre-requisites except introductory ability with computers and the Internet.

Participants must pass module quizzes with a 70% or better grade in order to print the module completion confirmation and mail it in to receive CEU's.

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Last revision 10 July 2005

Supported in part by Project # 1T02 MC 00022 01, 02, and 03 and #1T21 MC03421-01-00 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (Title V, Social Security Act), Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.

Rocky Mountain Public Health Education Consortium is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Utah Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Provider #P05-04 for the period 7/1/05-7/1/08. All UNA Members taking our courses will be given a 10% discount.

For NCHEC (National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Inc.) we are now an "Multiple Event Provider" #MEP2237 for the period of 1/1/05-12/31/08.