Ans) Individual values, beliefs, and behaviors about health and well-being are shaped by various factors such as race, ethnicity, nationality, language, gender, socioeconomic status, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, and occupation.
- Cultural competence in health care is broadly defined as the ability of providers and organizations to understand and integrate these factors into the delivery and structure of the health care system.
- The goal of culturally competent health care services is to provide the highest quality of care to every patient, regardless of race, ethnicity, cultural background, English proficiency or literacy.
- Some common strategies for improving the patient-provider interaction and institutionalizing changes in the health care system include:
1. Provide interpreter services
2. Recruit and retain minority staff
3. Provide training to increase cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills
4. Coordinate with traditional healers
5. Use community health workers
6. Incorporate culture-specific attitudes and values into health promotion tools
7. Include family and community members in health care decision making
8. Locate clinics in geographic areas that are easily accessible for certain populations
9. Expand hours of operation
10. Provide linguistic competency that extends beyond the clinical encounter to the appointment desk, advice lines, medical billing, and other written materials
What can health care managers do to address the issues of health disparities and foster cultural...
describe the concepts of health disparities benefits of cultural competency, and cultural proficiency
what public policies might help to address health inequities or social determinants health? what are the benefits of implementing program to address cultural competence within a health care organization?what are the costs of not implementing such programs?
Express how the lack of access to health care and the resulting health disparities are important and pressing ethical issues in health care. Base comments on the author's description of health disparities & related ethical issues
2. Based on your review of examples programs to address health disparities, describe one of them and how nurses can help eliminate health disparities related to race? 3. Have you as a health care professional witnessed privilege or racial profiling at your work place? What can be done to stop racial profiling in health care and beyond? How can a better understanding of implicit bias, health disparities and the role of race and socioeconomic background inform your nursing practice to...
How do multicultural issues/factors influence nursing practice and how do the health care system influence cultural practices and affiliation
What is "cultural competence" in health care? In what ways does implicit bias compromise cultural competence/humility? How do health care provider beliefs about patients, such as paternalistic beliefs about "what is best" for patients, beliefs about patients' capacity to make informed choices, etc., influence patient care? Give examples from the readings and videos, and relate to your practice area. Even if you do not care for dying patients routinely in your practice, reflect on how these issues can have an...
This week, we are focusing on Health Disparities. Our discussion board is going to focus on the Case Study entitled "Where Do You Live? Health Disparities Across the United States. Please read and review the case very carefully and then think about the issues covered in the case. To complete your original post, you will need to complete some outside research using credible resources and please provide the website you get the source from. Your original post must address all...
What role can culturally competent care play in the reduction of health disparities?
What is your interpretation of the connection between cultural competence and the issue of health disparities?
how do you expand those will health disparities ability to recieve care ? what are common obstacles