Enhancing community well-being through partnerships in education
A report entitled "Needs Assessment for Micronesian Health Care in Hawaii" identified key health issues among the Micronesian community in Hawaii. PREL evaluator Sonja Evensen advised the group of UH, Department of Public Health Sciences students that collected data and prepared the assessment. The work -- intended to assist health care providers interested in understanding the challenges Micronesians face in seeking care -- exposed the following concerns in providing health care for the Micronesian community: transportation and community/medical outreach, cultural differences, information dissemination/sharing, health literacy, translation and interpreter issues, mental and behavioral health.
This report may be useful for health clinic
staff and service providers dealing with immigrant populations. It
may also serve as a resource for those involved in health care
policy development or grant-writing. This report was funded in part
by the National Library of Medicine under contract no.
N01-LM-6-3507 with the NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region, UCLA
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library.
To read the full report, download it here .
(Posted Monday, November 02, 2009)