The Office of Health Disparity Elimination is charged with training all levels of Health Department employees in cultural competence to enable effective work in cross-cultural situations.
Health care services that are respectful of and responsive to the beliefs and needs of diverse patients can help bring about positive health outcomes. Cultural competence permits patients and doctors to talk about health concerns without the hindrance of cultural differences.
Health care organizationsand individual providers are encouraged to use the CLAS standards to make their practices more culturally and linguistically accessible.
