So, with the idea of combining my interests in health, I thought it would be interesting to examine how health information is disseminated in the Netherlands/Amsterdam, and if there were "culturally appropriate" health information and practices available for immigrant communities. If there are, do those services improve the quality of care or the perception of the quality of care received?
Harborview International Medicine Clinic provides some interesting services, including native language speaking staff and interpretive services in 70+ languages, house calls, educational material available online about specific different cultures for doctors and staff.
There are programs like this around the world, but the services they provide differ. This one, in New South Wales, Australia, focuses on communication between the provider and the patients and was set up by the national health service.
It might also be interesting to look at non-traditional ways to promote health, like this soccer game for AIDS awareness or the fashion show for positive body image that I co-produced in February.
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Smart work. You'll need to arrive at a definition of "culturally appropriate"--and that will require some torquing. Harborview's explicit appeal to multiple languages and cultures may well have some corollaries in the Dutch context. Your final possibility, that of non-traditional modes of appeal, is really interesting. (Does this qualify as "outreach," I wonder?) We'll be there during Gay Pride, and the festivities there may hold some compelling modes of health outreach. Be sure to look at the earlier projects, in previous years, that focussed on health: http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/comparative_study_of_healthcare_in_seattle_and_amsterdam/
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the 2007 group that look at health care needs of sex workers (Shirley and Haley), as well as
Jana, Irina, and Jonathan's work with addiction services.
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