Culturally Competent Health Care: Programs to Recruit and Retain Staff Who Reflect the Community's Cultural Diversity

These types of interventions seek to recruit and retain health care providers who reflect the cultural diversity of the community served.

Summary of Task Force Recommendations & Findings

The Community Preventive Services Task Force finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of programs to recruit and retain staff who reflect a community's cultural diversity to increase the cultural competence of healthcare systems because no studies qualified for review.

Task Force Finding

 

These findings were based on a systematic review of all available studies, conducted on behalf of the Task Force by a team of specialists in systematic review methods, and in research, practice and policy related to the social environment.

Economic Review

An economic review of this intervention was not conducted because the Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine its effectiveness.

Supporting Materials

• Analytic framework [PDF - 731KB]- See Figure 1 on page 72
• Research gaps
• Summary evidence tables [PDF - 30KB]
• Search strategy

Publications

Anderson LM, Scrimshaw SC, Fullilove MT, et al. Culturally competent healthcare systems: a systematic review. [PDF - 731KB] Am J Prev Med 2003;24(3S): S68-79.

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Recommendations to promote healthy social environments. [PDF - 72KB] Am J Prev Med 2003;2003;24(3S):S21-4.

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. The social environment. [PDF - 386KB] In : Zaza S, Briss PA, Harris KW, eds. The Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health? Atlanta (GA): Oxford University Press;2005:329-84.

More Community Guide publications about Promoting Health Through the Social Environment

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Sample Citation

The content of publications of the Guide to Community Preventive Services is in the public domain. Citation as to source, however, is appreciated. Sample citation: Guide to Community Preventive Services. Culturally competent health care: programs to recruit and retain staff who reflect the community's cultural diversity. www.thecommunityguide.org/social/staffing.html. Last updated: MM/DD/YYYY.

Review completed: October 2001