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Community Reviewer Comments

Transcend documents and compiles all community reviewer comments. This allows us to have a deeper understanding of a group’s specific needs and cultural concerns. Below is a summary of the community reviewers’ feedback on the Every Woman Counts project:

Community Reviewer comments -
Every Woman Counts		 Chinese Korean Spanish Vietnamese
1. Include personal success stories of detection/treatment. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
2. Specify which income levels qualify for free services. (Saying
“low income” may be unclear.)		 ✓ Say at the beginning. Say at the beginning. ✓
3. Do follow-up after presentation. One presentation is not enough. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
4. Women in this group prefer female providers over male. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
5. Emphasize interpreters are available, and female providers may be available. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
6. Provide opportunities for women to cover up as much as possible. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
7. Use photos of target group. ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Chinese Spanish
  • May rely on Chinese herbs for good health and for cures.
  • May prefer to return to China for healthcare where they know the health care system, and it is free or lower cost.
  • Prefer Chinese-speaking providers.
  • Folk beliefs may play a role in understanding disease. For example, certain foods are believed to cause “hot poison” in the blood, which is believed to cause breast cancer.
  • Barriers to care include: language issues, no insurance/cost of care, embarrassment, pain, “laziness,” or a belief that you do not seek care unless you feel sick.
  • Talk about improved success rates in breast cancer compared to years gone by. Many older women still believe there is nothing you can do if you get cancer.
  • Advise if Spanish-speaking providers are available.
  • Talk about transportation options to appointments.
  • Make presentations short.
  • Barriers to care include cost, language, and embarrassment.
Korean Vietnamese
  • May rely on Chinese herbalists and herbs, which are often seen as better than doctors and western medicines because they do not have side effects.
  • Exercise, healthy food and herbal tea are seen as adequate methods to stay healthy.
  • Provide numbers/percentages of women with these health problems.
  • Present info about risk associated with multiple sex partners and smoking carefully. Korean women tend to have only 1 lifetime partner and do not smoke.
  • Often do not seek care unless they have symptoms
  • May be reluctant to show their breasts and to discuss breast and cervical cancers.
  • The facilitator must be personable, good communicator, and bicultural and bilingual. She must develop a close bond with the women.
  • Give the women a short, printed summary of the curriculum materials.
  • Explain how they should ask for a female provider and how to ask for an interpreter.
  • Vietnamese women know something about breast cancer, but are shy or reluctant to discuss it in public.
  • Barriers to seeking care include fear of pain or learning they have cancer, no insurance, cost, language barriers, and embarrassment.

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