Ch. 9 Cultural Awareness Terms

Question 1

Norms, values and traditions passed down through the generations.

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Differences, among populations in the availability, and quality of health care services aimed at prevention, treatment, and management of diseases and their complications.

Answer 2

Health Care Disparities

Question 3

In depth, self-examination of one’s own background, recognizing biases, prejudices, and assumptions about other people.

Answer 3

Cultural Awareness

Question 4

The way people tend to look out upon the world or universe to form a picture or value stance about life or the world around them.

Answer 4

World View

Question 5

Key quality indicators that help health care institutions improve performance, increase accountability, and reduce costs.

Answer 5

Core Measures

Question 6

Care that fits a person’s life patterns, values, and system of meaning.

Answer 6

Culturally Congruent Care

Question 7

More likely to have poor health outcomes and die at an early age because of a complex interaction between individual genetics and behaviors; public and healthy policy, community and environmental factors; and quality of health care.

Answer 7

Marginalized Group

Question 8

Enabling of health care providers to deliver services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients.

Answer 8

Cultural Competency

Question 9

Systematic and comprehensive examination of the cultural care values, beliefs, and practices of individuals, families, and communities.

Answer 9

Cultural Assessment.

Question 10

His or her views about health and illness and its treatment.

Answer 10

Explanatory model

Question 11

Inequality or difference between the health status of a disadvantaged group such as people with low incomes and wealth and an advantaged group such as people with high incomes and wealth.

Answer 11

Health Disparity

Question 12

Ability to assess social, cultural, and biophysical factors that influence patient treatment and care.

Answer 12

Cultural skills

Question 13

All belong simultaneously to multiple social groups within changing social and political contexts.

Answer 13

Intersectionality

Question 14

Cross-cultural interactions that provide opportunities to learn about other cultures and develop effective intercultural communication.

Answer 14

Cultural encounters

Question 15

Ability of an organization and its staff to communicate effectively and convey information in a manner that is easily understood by diverse audiences.

Answer 15

Linguistic competence

Question 16

The motivation and commitment to caring that moves an individual to learn from others, accept the role as a learner, be open to accepting of cultural differences, and build on cultural similarities.

Answer 16

Cultural desire.

Question 17

The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national and local levels.

Answer 17

Social determinants of health.

Question 18

Sufficient comparative knowledge of diverse group, including the values, health beliefs, care practices, world view, and bicultural ecology found within each group.

Answer 18

Cultural knowledge.

Question 19

Formal and informal system of advantages and disadvantages tied to our membership in social groups, such as those at work, school and in families.

Answer 19

Oppression

Question 20

Culture that is universal.

Answer 20

Transcultural nursing.