TY - JOUR
T1 - Cervical Cancer Attitudes and Knowledge in Somali Refugees in Nebraska
AU - Grimm, Brandon
AU - Alnaji, Nada
AU - Watanabe-Galloway, Shinobu
AU - Leypoldt, Melissa
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The Nebraska Local Performance Site is supported by a grant from the Health Resources & Services Administration through the University of Iowa, Grant UB6HP27879.
Funding Information:
This article is part of a Pedagogy in Health Promotion: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning supplement, “U.S. Public Health Learning Network: Innovative Competency-Based Training for the Public Health Workforce,” which was supported by the Society for Public Health Education and the Region IV Public Health Training Center, Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Grant Number UB6HP27875, Affordable Care Act (ACA) Public Health Training Centers. The entire supplement issue is available open access for one year at http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/phpa/3/1_suppl .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Society for Public Health Education.
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - The state of Nebraska has a growing number of refugees with diverse backgrounds and health needs. To address these needs, a collaborative project was developed by the local performance site of the Midwestern Public Health Training Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, Office of Women’s and Men’s Health. The purpose of this 2-year project is to improve the quality of services offered by the Office of Women’s and Men’s Health by assessing risk, knowledge, and preventive screening practices in refugee populations and provide recommendations to increase cancer-screening rates. The focus of the project was on cervical cancer prevention of Somali women refugees in Nebraska. In Year 1 of the project (2015-2016), a Refugee Screening Collaborative was created to provide input and recommendations throughout the project; focus groups and a literature review were completed to explore the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of cervical cancer screening and human papillomavirus vaccine among refugees and health care providers; and recommendations were made for the development and implementation of curricula and interventions that address the unique cultural and literacy needs of the population. This project demonstrates the importance of the Public Health Training Center program for building mutually beneficial partnerships between academia and practice.
AB - The state of Nebraska has a growing number of refugees with diverse backgrounds and health needs. To address these needs, a collaborative project was developed by the local performance site of the Midwestern Public Health Training Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, Office of Women’s and Men’s Health. The purpose of this 2-year project is to improve the quality of services offered by the Office of Women’s and Men’s Health by assessing risk, knowledge, and preventive screening practices in refugee populations and provide recommendations to increase cancer-screening rates. The focus of the project was on cervical cancer prevention of Somali women refugees in Nebraska. In Year 1 of the project (2015-2016), a Refugee Screening Collaborative was created to provide input and recommendations throughout the project; focus groups and a literature review were completed to explore the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of cervical cancer screening and human papillomavirus vaccine among refugees and health care providers; and recommendations were made for the development and implementation of curricula and interventions that address the unique cultural and literacy needs of the population. This project demonstrates the importance of the Public Health Training Center program for building mutually beneficial partnerships between academia and practice.
KW - cervical caner
KW - focus groups
KW - minority health
KW - refugee health
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U2 - 10.1177/2373379917698673
DO - 10.1177/2373379917698673
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052564200
SN - 2373-3799
VL - 3
SP - 81S-87S
JO - Pedagogy in Health Promotion
JF - Pedagogy in Health Promotion
IS - 1_suppl
ER -