{"id":786,"date":"2011-11-23T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=786"},"modified":"2011-11-23T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T17:31:45","slug":"discovering-disease-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2011\/11\/23\/discovering-disease-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Disease Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_787\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/HS105poster201111.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-787\" title=\"HS105poster201111\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/HS105poster201111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption>College of Professional Studies Dean Marty Loy visiting one of the booths.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UW-Stevens Point students in Health Science 105 Survey of Common Disease showcased their findings of the importance of becoming culturally aware of a patient&#8217;s needs at a poster presentation in the Dreyfus University Center Laird Room Wednesday, Nov. 23.<\/p>\n<p>The students collaborated in groups and discovered how diverse backgrounds are related to major disease categories such as infectious disease, cancer, stroke, and heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The purpose of this exercise is learning about exposure to inclusive excellence through cultural diversity and sensitivity awareness,&#8221; said Professor Jodi L. Olmsted, RDH, Ph.D. &#8220;As health care providers, you need to know about a patient&#8217;s health and cultural background to best treat them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of UWSP administration, faculty, community members and other students attended the presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; UW-Stevens Point students in Health Science 105 Survey of Common Disease showcased their findings of the importance of becoming culturally aware of a patient&#8217;s needs at a poster presentation in the Dreyfus University Center Laird Room Wednesday, Nov. 23. The students collaborated in groups and discovered how diverse backgrounds are related to major disease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,14],"tags":[89,171,181,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}