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Appendix G: Kaiser Permanente: Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information
Pages 201-220

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... Appendix G Kaiser Permanente: Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information 201
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... The objectives of the policy extend beyond collecting information for compliance reasons; it is intended to inform patient-centered care, culturally and linguistically competent care and services, and the elimination of health and health care disparities/inequities. Timely, valid, and representative data collection is essential to the provision of quality and equitable care.
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... Granular Ethnicity Kaiser Permanente examined the significance of ethnicity in the context of health, and concluded that the creation of a more encompassing definition of Ethnicity was needed. Granular Ethnicity would be able to capture patient data at a level that would inform beyond the limited federal standards to ensure timely, valid, and representative data collection.
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... We are collecting both spoken and written language to ensure the provision of quality and equitable health care. The Spoken/Written Language Code Sets are reviewed on an on-going basis primarily to ensure alignment with linguistic trends in the United States, current organizational language utilization, as well as relevance in culturally and linguistically competent care and patient centered care.
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... Combined Format Issued by the Office of Management and Budget American Indian/Alaska Native Asian Black/African American Hispanic/Latino Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander White Decline to State Other Unknown The Combined Format is a multiple response field. © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... 206 RACE, ETHNICITY, AND LANGUAGE DATA Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information June, 2009 Granular Ethnicity Acadian/Cajun Afghan/Afghanistani Agikuyu/Kikuyu Akan Alaska Athabascan Albanian Aleut Algerian Alsatian Amara/Amhara Amazigh/Imazighen/Berber American/United States Amerindian/Indigena/Indio Antiguan/Barbudan Apache Arab/Arabic Argentine/Argentinean Armenian Asian Indian/Indian (Asia) Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac Australian Austrian Azerbaijani Azeri Bahamian Bajan/Barbadian Bamar/Burman Bangladeshi Bantu Basque Belarusian/Belorussian Belgian Belizean Bengali Blackfeet Bolivian Bosniak Bosnian/Herzegovinian Brazilian British Isles/British Isles origin British West Indian/Indies Briton/British Bulgarian Burmese © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... 20 APPENDIX G Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information June, 2009 Granular Ethnicity (cont'd) Cambodian Cameroonian/Cameroon Canadian Canadian American Indian Cape Verdean Carpatho Rusyn Celtic Central American Indian Cherokee Cheyenne Chickasaw Chilean Chinese Chippewa Choctaw Colombian Colville Comanche Congolese/Congo Costa Rican Creek Creole Croat/Croatian Crow Cuban Cypriot Czech Czechoslovakian Dane/Danish Delaware Dominican Dutch Dutch West Indian/Indies East Indian Eastern Cherokee Ecuadorian Egyptian Emirati/United Arab Emirates English Eritrean Eskimo Estonian Ethiopian Fijian Filipino/Philippine Finn/Finnish © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... 20 RACE, ETHNICITY, AND LANGUAGE DATA Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information June, 2009 Granular Ethnicity (cont'd) Fleming/Flemish French French Canadian Fulani/Hausa Georgian German German Russian Ghanaian/Ghanian Greek Grenadian Guamanian/Chamorro Guatemalan Guyanese Haitian Hawaiian/Native Hawaiian Hmong Honduran Hopi Hungarian Ibo/Igbo Icelander Indonesian Inupiat Eskimo Iranian Iraqi Irish Iroquois Israeli Italian Ivoirian/Ivory Coast Jamaican Japanese Javanese/Java/Jawa Jewish/Jew Jordanian Kazakh/Qazaq Kazakhstani Kenyan Keres Khmer Kinh/Viet Kiowa Kittitian/Nevisian Korean Kurd/Kurdish Kuwaiti © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... Nation Navajo Nepalese/Nepali New Zealander/New Zealand Nicaraguan Nigerian Norwegian Oglala Sioux Okinawan Oklahoma Choctaw Oneida Nation of New York/Oneida Oromo Osage Ottawa Paiute Pakistani Palestinian Panamanian Paraguayan Part Hawaiian Pashtun/Pathan Pennsylvania German Persian © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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From page 210...
... Marie Chippewa Scandinavian Scotch-Irish Scottish Seminole Seneca Senegalese Serb/Serbian Shawnee Shona Shoshone Sierra Leonean Singaporean/Singapore Sinhalese/Singhalese Sioux Slavic Slovak Slovene/Slovenian Somali/Somalian South African South American Indian Soviet/Soviet Union Spaniard/Spanish Spanish American Indian Sri Lankan Sudanese Swede/Swedish Swiss Syrian © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... Virgin Islander Ugandan Ukrainian Uruguayan Ute Uzbek/Uzbeg Uzbekistani Venezuelan Vietnamese Welsh West Indian White Mountain Apache Yakama Yaqui Yemeni Yoruba Yugoslavian Yup'ik/Yupik Eskimo Zimbabwean Zuni Decline to State Other Unknown Currently, Granular Ethnicity is not available as a multiple response field for multiethnic persons. Request for IT change is underway.
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... 212 RACE, ETHNICITY, AND LANGUAGE DATA Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information June, 2009 Spoken Language Abkhaz Afar Afrikaans Akan Albanian Algonquin American Sign Language Amharic Apachean/Apache Arabic Aramaic Armenian Assyrian Neo-Aramaic/Assyrian Aymaran/Aymara Aztec/Nahuatl Bantu Bashkir Basque Bengali Bhojpuri Bislama Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Burmese Cantonese/Chinese, Yue Catalan-Valencian-Balear Cebuano Chamorro Chaochow/Chinese, Min Nan Chaozhou/Chinese, Min Nan Cherokee Chuukese/Trukese Corsican Croatian Cushitic/Cushite Czech Dakota Danish Dari, Zoroastrian/Dari Dinka Dutch English Esperanto © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... 21 APPENDIX G Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information June, 2009 Spoken Language (cont'd) Farsi/Persian Fijian Filipino Finnish Formosan French French Creole French, Cajun/Cajun Fukienese/Chinese, Min Nan Fula/Fulani Fuzhou/Chinese, Min Dong Gaelic, Irish/Irish Gaelic Georgian German German, Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Dutch Greek Gujarati/Gujarathi Guranai Haitian Creole French/Haitian Creole Hakka/Chinese, Hakka Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmongic/Hmong Hmong-Mien/Miao-Yao Huizhou/Chinese, Huizhou Hungarian Igbo/Ibo Ilocano Indonesian Inuktitut, Greenlandic Italian Iu Mien/Mien Jamaican Creole English/Jamaican Creole Japanese Kannada Kashmiri Keres Korean Kru Kurdish Kusaiean/Kosraean Ladino Languedocien/Occitan Lao/Laotian Latvian/Lettish © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... Sinhala/Sinhalese Slovak Somali Songhai/Songhay Soninke Sorbian, Lower/Lusatian © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Vlaams/Flemish Wolof Xhosa Yapese Yi, Sichuan/Szechuan Yiddish Yoruba Zulu Do Not Speak Decline to State Other Unknown Spoken Language is a multiple response field. © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... 216 RACE, ETHNICITY, AND LANGUAGE DATA Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information June, 2009 Written Language Abkhaz Afar Afrikaans Akan Albanian Algonquin Amharic Apachean/Apache Arabic Aramaic Armenian Assyrian Neo-Aramaic/Assyrian Aymaran/Aymara Aztec/Nahuatl Bantu Bashkir Basque Bengali Bhojpuri Bislama Bosnian Braille Breton Bulgarian Burmese Catalan-Valencian-Balear Cebuano Chamorro Cherokee Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chuukese/Trukese Corsican Croatian Cushitic/Cushite Czech Dakota Danish Dari, Zoroastrian/Dari Dinka Dutch English Esperanto Farsi/Persian © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... 21 APPENDIX G Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information June, 2009 Written Language (cont'd) Fijian Filipino Finnish Formosan French French Creole French, Cajun/Cajun Fula/Fulani Gaelic, Irish/Irish Gaelic Georgian German German, Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Dutch Greek Gujarati/Gujarathi Guranai Haitian Creole French/Haitian Creole Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmongic/Hmong Hmong-Mien/Miao-Yao Hungarian Igbo/Ibo Ilocano Indonesian Inuktitut, Greenlandic Italian Iu Mien/Mien Jamaican Creole English/Jamaican Creole Japanese Kannada Kashmiri Keres Korean Kru Kurdish Kusaiean/Kosraean Languedocien/Occitan Lao/Laotian Latvian/Lettish Lingala Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Mande © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... 21 RACE, ETHNICITY, AND LANGUAGE DATA Evolution of Data Collection on Race, Ethnicity, and Language Preference Information June, 2009 Written Language (cont'd) Marathi Marshallese Maya, Yucatan/Yucateco Micronesian Mixteco Mongolian Proper/Mongolian Mon-Khmer/Khmer Navajo Nepali Norwegian, Bokmal/Bokmal Norwegian, Nynorsk/Nynorsk Oriya Oromo Palauan/Palau Pampangan/Pampango Panjabi Pashto Patois Pohnpeian Polish Portuguese Provencal Punjabi Quechuan/Quechua Romanian/Moldavian Rundi/Kirundi Russian Rwanda/Kinyarwanda Samoan Sango/Sangho Serbian Shona Sinhala/Sinhalese Slovak Somali Songhai/Songhay Soninke Sorbian, Lower/Lusatian Sorbian, Upper Sotho, Southern/Sesotho Spanish Swahili/Kiswahili Swedish Tagalog Tamil Tatar © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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... Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Vlaams/Flemish Wolof Xhosa Yapese Yiddish Yoruba Zulu Do Not Read/Write Decline to State Other Unknown Written Language is a multiple response field. For more information, please contact: Gayle Tang, RN, MSN Director, National Linguistic & Cultural Programs National Diversity, Kaiser Permanente One Kaiser Plaza, 17 Lakeside Oakland, CA 94612 Email: Gayle.Tang@kp.org Phone: 510-271-6828 © Copyright 2009, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
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Key Terms

  • preference information
  • language data
  • kaiser permanente
  • granular ethnicity
  • code sets

  • american indian
  • data aggregation
  • response field
  • multiple response
  • language code

  • spoken language
  • written language
  • national diversity
  • combined format
  • linguistically competent

  • competent care
  • demographic data
  • representative data
  • quality improvement
  • ensure alignment

  • collection initiative
  • basis primarily
  • international data
  • patient data
  • improve data

  • language codes
  • organizational language
  • data fields
  • representative language
  • systematic data


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