Essays on Carrillo

English 1312.04

Carrera-Carrillo, Lore. "“Some of us are learning Spanish and some of us are learning English”: A comparison of second language programs in Texas." Thesis. 2003. Carrera-Carrillo observes how dual language programs are gaining popularity throughout the United States and targeting both the minority language students as well as the majority language students. Studies have revealed that there are many advantages which are associated with the learning of the English language. The native language enables students acquire content with better insight and can relate more to these concepts later in the English language. Not all facilities which have embraced ...

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MEMORANDUM INTRODUCTION Medical marketing has grown an increasingly complicated cause of the fast developing business of healthcare organizations. The old model of focusing on just patients and physicians stopped working. So, it has become incredibly important for doctors to market their medical practices in order to build their own brand, gain new patients and improve business from the current ones. Nowadays, marketing teams need to broaden their consideration horizons and focus on the following criteria: Patients, Physicians, Professional Healthcare Administrators, Payers and Policy Makers (Mycek, 2015). The Texas Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic and New York-Presbyterian Hospital will be analyzed ...

Carrillo defines cultural competence as the abilities possessed by medical practitioners in adapting to different cultures (23). These medical practitioners have the knowledge and skills, which help them, understand how different cultures work, and are able to balance the diverse cultural orientation. In medicine, like any other profession, cultural competence is important due to the cultural exposure doctors are subjected to; for instance from one country to another. Cultural competence course has imparted three lessons that are practical to my doctorate profession. Firstly, the course enhanced understanding of the challenges doctors undergo in adopting cultural competence. Doctors need to ...

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Globalization brings numerous opportunities to businesses because of the increased market share and growth. However, mass production poses a threat to limited resources and the environment which necessitates sustainable innovation to meet the needs of future generations (Henry, 2006). As such, manufacturers and producers have to implement environmental standards and regulations regarding sustainable development. Particularly, they invest in R&D in sustainable, eco-friendly innovations to cut the operation costs and meet the environment standards. Nonetheless, such projects face risks and failure due to the newness of the concept due to the low success rate of sustainable projects, especially in closed ...

Betancourt, J.R., Green, A.R., Carrillo, J.E., & Ananeh-Firempong, O. (2003). Defining cultural competence: a practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care. Public Health Reports 118: 293.

Betancourt et al. (2003) chose to study the effects of certain interventions in health care to dispel racial and ethnic disparities that are accepted to occur within the healthcare system. The objective is to ultimately find a framework that equalizes and eliminates these disparities; the researchers hypothesize that a framework of their devising could address these disparities and implement equitable health care regardless of ethnicity or race. A literature review was conducted ...