What is cultural competence? In your opinion, would the existence or the absence of cultural competency affect health disparities? What are some of the ways that researchers or practitioners may collaborate on this issue?
cultural competence - it is defined as the ability of healthcare professionals to communicate with various types of people from different cultures and understand their values, beliefs, and feelings.
Exitance of cultural competence reduces the health disparities and the absence of cultural competency increases the health disparities.
researchers or practitioners can collaborate in this issue by increasing cultural competence among health care professionals, some ways are
- Help them and teach health care professionals to perform cultural competence self-assessment and tech them that cultural competence is very important to improve the quality of care.
- One of the big barriers in cultural competence is the language barrier, so, improve communication and give communication ideas to health care providers
- The health care provider should provide care according to the patient, the care provider should give respect to the patient's beliefs and values.
- Health care provides should understand that each patient is different and have a different belief so, the provider should treat the patient while respecting the patient.
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