Describe five differences between cultural competence and cultural humility.
Ans) Cultural competence:
- A commitment and active engagement in a lifelong process that
individuals enter into on an ongoing basis with patients,
communities, colleagues and with themselves.
- Not defined by a discrete endpoint.
Cultural humility:
- Incorporates a life-long commitment to self
evaluation/self-critique
- To redressing the power imbalances in the patient-physician
dynamic by using patient-focused interviewing and care
- To developing mutually beneficial and nonpaternalistic
clinical/advocacy partnerships on behalf of individuals and defined
populations.
• Difference between cultural competence and cultural humility:
Finite vs infinite
- Requires: knowledge,awareness, sensitivity, addressing power
balances
- Each one has pros and cons
- Requires to be taught by: increasing knowledge, changing
thought/awareness, changing power structures.
- The difference is basically that cultural competence uses the knowledge and beliefs of other cultures to help health practitioners to maintain effective, professional relationships cross-culturally. While cultural humility understands that it is impossible to fully understand another culture because one is not part of that culture and to be aware that there are gaps in this knowledge and thus to be open to new ideas and advice.
Describe five differences between cultural competence and cultural humility.
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