The National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)

The National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards in Health and Health Care serve as a guide to advance and sustain culturally and linguistically appropriate services within organizations. Review the CLAS Standards and identify one that most resonates with you, or is most relevant to your interests in public health. Prepare a rationale for the implementation of you selected standard.

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The Nationally Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards are intended to improve the quality of health services provided while ensuring that the disparities in health care are eliminated as well (Barksdale et al., 2017). There are 15 principles encompassed in the CLAS standards, however, the one that resonates with me that for there to be the provision of equitable, understandable, respectful and equitable health care, the health care providers need to ensure that the diverse cultural beliefs held by the individuals are xxx Standard in CLAS resonates with the Public Health Science in that it focuses on ensuring that the population can receive quality health care while improving the people’s quality of life at the same time xxx is done by the detection and prevention of diseases whether physical or xxx done by the promotion of health-conscious behaviors among the public after addressing societ