U.S. Latino Adult Stroke Survivors’ Receipt of Care from Ethnically Concordant Health Providers

• In Event: 40817 - Health Care and Care Delivery: Medical Organizations, Providers and Patients

Abstract

In the United States (U.S.), recent studies highlight the importance of health providers’ cultural humility training to improve health equity and better serve historically underserved rural and urban populations. Cultural humility and patient-centered care are important for the health of culturally diverse communities. Nevertheless, there is a gap in studies exploring the impact of patient-provider ethnic concordance on patients’ health outcomes. Cultural humility is a patient-centered lifelong learner model that improves health providers and patient dynamics. The core of this model is to allow the patient to be the expert on their health while the provider is an active listener, collaborating with the patient to arrive at the best care treatment plan for the patient. Within this context, this study aimed to analyze the role of ethnic concordance between patients and their providers in shaping Hispanic-Latino health outcomes. The study analyzed U.S. Hispanic-Latino stroke survivors’ experiences with cultural humility and ethnically concordant health providers through three measures: treated with respect, shared decision-making, and accessible language. Toward that end, this study analyzed data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to illustrate the Association between U.S. Hispanic-Latino Adult stroke survivors’ receipt of care from ethnically concordant health providers and their rating of health providers’ cultural humility. The results highlight the importance of exploring the U.S. Latino patient-provider dynamics to increase Latino healthcare access and utilization.

Author

• Diana G. Ponce, University of California-San Francisco