Which activity or situation helps meet the goals of Healthy People 2010 with regard to culture?
A. Ensuring accurate recording of a client's race and/or ethnicity in the medical record
B. Hiring physicians and nurses from culturally diverse backgrounds
C. Providing magazines written in more than one language in waiting areas of clinics
D. Translating HIV prevention guidelines into multiple literacy and language forms
B
A goal of Healthy People 2010 is to eliminate the disparities of health status experienced by ra-cial and ethnic minorities in the areas of cancer screening and management, cardiovascular dis-ease, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. Only the action of translating HIV prevention guidelines into multiple literacy and language forms would assist in meeting this goal. The other actions only demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences.
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