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Patient/Provider Communications
Communication Tips
HPV and Cervical Cancer: What Your Clients Need to Know (English, Spanish and Vietnamese)
California Family Health Council
This 2-page information sheet for health care providers emphasizes what educational messages clients should be given regarding the relationship between HPV and cervical cancer. Practical tips are given for how to best educate your clients about this important topic.
Cross-Cultural Communication
Cross-Culture Medicine – Article published in American Family Physician
Dr. Gregory Juckett, M.D., M.P.H., of West Virginia University School of Medicine, wrote this concise review of cultural competency concepts as they apply to the practice of medicine.
Think Cultural Health
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Minority Health
This site offers resources and tools to promote cultural competency in health care. Health care providers can access free online courses accredited for continuing education credit as well as supplementary tools to help promote respectful, understandable, and effective care to increasingly diverse patients.
Teen Sexual Health
Sexual History Taking Toolkit
Center for Health Training
This 9-page document developed by the Center for Health Training in 2009 contains information about how to integrate sexual history-taking, focusing on STIs, into client care.
Accompanying materials are available in appendices: Comfort Scale -- a personal comfort self-assessment exercise for staff; national recommendations for chlamydia, gonorrhea and HIV screening; samples of self-administered history forms; Questions to Ask -- a pocket guide with the most important, basic questions to ask in a STI-focused sexual history. The website also offers four brief videos that present diverse simulated sexual history-taking interviews followed by expert commentary.
Resources for Providers - Adolescent Provider Toolkit Series: Sexual Health Toolkit Module
California Adolescent Health Working Group
Developed by the Adolescent Health Working Group in 2003 and then updated in 2010, this toolkit includes information and resources for providers to use in their practice. The toolkit contains screening and assessment tools, brief office interventions and counseling guidelines, information and tip sheets, and health education materials.
HPV in Adolescents – Article for Physician Assistants, 2007
This article provides background information on HPV and the HPV vaccine with a special attention to adolescent decision-making and the role of the PA in educating them about safer sexual practices, providing HPV information, and offering the HPV vaccine. PAs are uniquely positioned to help adolescents make behavioral changes to help control HPV spread through the provision of direct care, age-appropriate education and nonjudgmental support.
Opening The Conversation
By Anita Nelson, MD
An Article on talking with Teens about HPV, Cervical Cancer and the HPV Vaccine.
Minor Consent to Medical Care
Understanding Confidentiality and Minor Consent in California
Designed for busy providers, the Understanding Confidentiality and Minor Consent in California module was produced jointly with the California Adolescent Health Collaborative and the Adolescent Health Working Group and includes materials that are free to copy and distribute to adolescent patients and their families, or to hang in waiting and exam rooms.
Minor Consent, Confidentiality, and Child Abuse Reporting in California
This 36-page report was developed by the National Center for Youth Law in 2006 and contains a comprehensive analysis of California state law as it relates to minor consent and confidentiality.
Tips for Protecting Youth Confidentiality
This 7-page document was developed by San Francisco's Adolescent Health Working Group (www.ahwg.net). This document outlines how clinic staff can ensure that their offices are conscious of confidentiality of adolescent patients. Tips for ensuring confidentiality when parents are involved are also included. In addition, this document includes a checklist to assist medical providers in making their offices adolescent-friendly.
Billing for Confidential Adolescent Health Services
This 4-page fact sheet was developed by members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Adolescent Health and the Society for Adolescent Medicine to provide an overview of minors' right to consent for reproductive health services. This document addresses HIPAA regulations, confidential billing, and access to routine chlamydia screening for sexually active adolescent girls. The fact sheet is a good resource for medical care providers seeking more information about minors' rights to consent for reproductive health care and how to protect that confidentiality through office practices and procedures.
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