title: Developing local public health capacity in cultural competency: a case study with Haitians in a rural community.
abstract: With the increase in cultural diversity in all regions of the United States, public health employees and other health care providers are more challenged than ever before to provide culturally sensitive care to citizens from an increasing range of cultures. Building on their existing experience and skill, health care staff must expand their competencies to address this changing diversity in their communities. This project serves as a case study of how 1 small rural health department in Delaware created a Web site using Purnell's model for cultural competence (Purnell & Paulanka, 2003) as the organizational framework and rose to the challenge of assisting public health staff to provide culturally sensitive health services to a rapidly increasing population of Haitian immigrants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, State of Delaware, USA. lisl.phelps@state.de.us
authors.forename: Lisl Doscher
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Phelps
authors.forename: Karin E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003691:Delaware; D005260:Female; D006205:Haiti / Q000208:ethnology; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017145:Models, Educational; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D015980:Public Health Practice; D019035:Rural Health Services