Moving towards culturally competent health systems: organizational and market factors.

ABSTRACT: Cultural competency has been proposed as an organizational strategy to address racial/ethnic disparities in the healthcare system; disparities are a long-standing policy challenge whose relevance is only increasing with the increasing population diversity of the US and across the world. Using an integrative conceptual framework based on the resource dependency and institutional theories, we examine the relationship between organizational and market factors and hospitals' degree of cultural competency. Our sample consists of 119 hospitals located in the state of California (US) and is constructed using the following datasets for the year 2006: Cultural Competency Assessment Tool of Hospitals (CCATH) Survey, California's Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development's Hospital Inpatient

SUBMITTER: Weech-Maldonado R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3669592 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature