Cultural Competence

By Kathleen Kendall-Tackett

Cultural Competency is a concise collection of articles that will help you improve your effectiveness when working with mothers from different cultures. Topics include: - Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support - Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore - Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans - Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations - Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively - Social support and breastfeeding self-efficacy among Black mothers - Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core - Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community - Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939807352
• ISBN13: 9781939807359
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Praeclarus Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"