Health Literacy and Cultural Competency

Grants

The following is a list of AHRQ grants that are relevant to Health Literacy and Cultural and Linguistic Competency. Click on the title to view abstract and other grant information. Grants are only listed once, so grants that address more than one topic are listed under the first topic they cover. For example, a grant pertaining to healthcare for African Americans and Latinos will be listed under African Americans.

Searches for additional grants can be conducted on the Grants On-Line Database (GOLD).

Health Literacy

Low-Literacy Populations

Using IT for Patient-Centered Communication and Decision Making about Medications
Assessing Anticoagulation Therapy Management Services
Low Maternal Health Literacy: An Obstacle to Pediatric Health Care Utilitzation
Collaborative Management of Indigent Diabetic Patients
Hospital Patient Safe-D(ischarge): A Discharge Bundle for Patients
Improving Diabetes Efforts across Language and Literacy Patient-Centeredness in Care of Vulnerable Populations
Working with the Urban Underserved in the UCSF CRN

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Information Technology

Conversational IT for Better, Safer Pediatric Primary Care
Tailored DVD to Improve Medication Management for Low Literate Elderly Patients
Implementing a low-literacy, multimedia IT system to enhance patient-centered cancer care
Computer Assisted Medication and Patient Information Interface (CAMPII)
Harnessing Health IT for Self-Management Support and Medication Activation in a Medicaid Health Plan
Informative Technology: Linking Parents and Providers
Shared Decision Making—Prostate Cancer Screening by Couples
Web Based Renal Transplant Patient Medication Education
Using IT for Patient-Centered Communication and Decision Making about Medications

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Cultural and Linguistic Competency

African-American Populations

Access and Quality of Care in Black Vulnerable Populations
Collaborative Management of Diabetes in Blacks
Evaluating Culturally Appropriate Primary Health Care
Health Disparities in Minority Adult Americans
Improving the Delivery of Effective Care to Minorities
Overcoming Racial Health Disparities
Racial and Ethnic Variation in Medical Interactions
UCLA/Drew/Rand Program to Address Disparities in Health Care
Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities in Blacks

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Latino/Hispanic Populations

Improving Outcomes in U.S. Latino Children
Latina Immigrants, Bridge Persons, and Preventive Health
Latino-White Differences in Self-Reported Health Status
Enhanced Spanish Drug Label Design to Promote Patient Understanding and Use

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Asian/Pacific Islander Populations

High Blood Pressure Care for Korean Americans
The Experiences and Challenges of Informal Caregivers

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Indian/Native American Populations

Effect of Navajo Interpreters on Diabetes Outcomes
Understanding and Reducing Native Elder Health Disparities

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Communication and Racial Concordance

Patients' Racial Attitudes and Perceptions of Clinicians
Racial Differences in Physician-Patient Communication

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Conferences, Tools and Measures, and other Cultural Competency Topics

Advancing Research in Health Literacy
CAHPS II
Cultural Competency and Maternal Health in African Women
Enhancing the Infrastructure of the CAPRICORN PBRN
Evidence-Based Decision Aids to Improve Women's Health
New York State Conference on Increasing Language Access to Healthcare
Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Care Model

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