Objectives
- To improve the capacity of health professionals and institutions in meeting the needs of a culturally diverse patient group, thereby reducing the barriers to accessing services and alleviating different forms of discrimination with the health sector.
- To develop transcultural competences of health professionals as well as the development of health institutions’ capacity to handle diversity
- To develop methods of empowering patients with diverse needs
- To reduce linguistic barriers and to promote intercultural awareness and responsiveness to social, linguistic and cultural diversity
- To offer innovative ICT based training tools to address cultural diversity in the health sector
Activities
- Mapping how diversity affects health’ professionals work by identifying critical incidents through interviews and group sessions with health professionals
- Collecting and mapping the relevant international literature of medical anthropology as an introductory material for health professionals interested in intercultural issues
- Selecting, adapting, transferring and disseminating good practices from diversity management and intercultural communication within the healthcare sector to healthcare institutions
- Developing a curriculum and set of training modules for healthcare professionals
- Teaching, training activities
- Setting up an online free platform for health professionals to share all outputs in a user-friendly manner for the autonomous self-training of health professionals and to open all resources to relevant groups
- Implementing a series of multiplier events and blended mobility for health professionals
Activities
- Mapping how diversity affects health’ professionals work by identifying critical incidents through interviews and group sessions with health professionals
- Collecting and mapping the relevant international literature of medical anthropology as an introductory material for health professionals interested in intercultural issues
- Selecting, adapting, transferring and disseminating good practices from diversity management and intercultural communication within the healthcare sector to healthcare institutions
- Developing a curriculum and set of training modules for healthcare professionals
- Teaching, training activities
- Setting up an online free platform for health professionals to share all outputs in a user-friendly manner for the autonomous self-training of health professionals and to open all resources to relevant groups
- Implementing a series of multiplier events and blended mobility for health professionals
Partners
- Coordinator: Warwickshire Race Equality Partnership (United Kingdom)
- Artemisszio Foundation (Hungary)
- Elan Interculturel (France)
- mhtconsult ApS (Denmark)
- Universitaet Wien (Austria)
- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (United Kingdom)
