Question

Class: HSA3113

1.) write a brief explanation of how and why Cultural Competence is relative to healthcare and how healthcare is delivered.

Answer 1

Ans) Culturally competent care is defined as care that respects diversity in the patient population and cultural factors that can affect health and health care, such as language, communication styles, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

- Becoming a Culturally Competent Health Care Organization
• Collect race, ethnicity and language preference (REAL) data.
• Identify and report disparities.
• Provide culturally and linguistically competent care.
• Develop culturally competent disease management programs.
• Increase diversity and minority workforce pipelines.
• Involve the community.

- The influence of culture on health is vast. It affects perceptions of health, illness and death, beliefs about causes of disease, approaches to health promotion, how illness and pain are experienced and expressed, where patients seek help, and the types of treatment patients prefer.

- Cultural competence provides many benefits for healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations. Social benefits include increased mutual respect between healthcare workers and patients, increased trust, and promotion of patient responsibility and empowerment in their own healthcare.