Health Advocacy & Health Literacy

10/16/24 • 30 min

Dr. Nwando Anyaoku, Chief Health Equity and Clinical Innovation Officer at Providence and here spoke with Denise Colome, Director of Health Equity, California, South Division and Cheldy Martinez, MPH,Project Manager, Health Equity, California, South Division about the health advocacy work we’re doing here at Providence in supporting. They also talked about how best to promote the rights of individuals and communities to achieve better health outcomes.

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Diabetes

Dr. Nwando Anyaoku, the Chief Health Equity and Clinical Innovation Officer at Providence, had a discussion with Dr. Michael Sanchez, a Primary Care Internal Medicine physician for Facey Medical Group in Mission Hills, CA, about a prevalent healthcare concern—diabetes. They talked about the risk factors, health equity issues, and strategies for managing blood sugar levels.

Next Episode

Cultural Competence: Navigating Our Individual + Universal Bias

In this episode of Culture of Health, we learn how to increase our level of cultural competence by navigating our individual and universal biases.
Anna Nguyen, a Licensed Family and Marriage Therapist with Providence, speaks with Jankee Pandya, Licensed Clinical Social Worker about the various types of bias, how we develop conscious and unconscious biases, and what to do once we recognize the biases we hold so we can start to reshape how we look at and treat others.

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