Reducing health disparities by improving quality of care: lessons learned from culturally diverse women.

Disparities in health care for culturally diverse populations in the United States lead to poorer health outcomes. This article focuses on decreasing health disparities by improving the quality of care for culturally diverse women. Findings from 3 pilot studies are organized using Fongwa's Quality of Care Model, which demonstrate specific modifications suggested by culturally diverse women that can potentially improve health care services for these women.

Listening to women: culturally tailoring the violence prevention guidelines from the put prevention into practice program.

Purpose: To develop five reliable and valid (culturally tailored) guidelines focused on the prevention of violence as presented in the violence prevention guideline of the Put Prevention into Practice Clinician's Handbook on Preventative Services (PPIP).

Data Sources: The data collection for this qualitative, descriptive design of naturalistic inquiry was focus group interviews with five different ethnic groups of women (Caucasian, Filipino, Hawaiian, Japanese and Hispanic) using a semi-structured interview guide.

Conclusions: The women interviewed provided a variety of suggestions for adaptations to the guideline.