Cultural Competence Flashcards
cultural competence
acknowledgement and incorporation of the importance of culture in practice
-acceptance/respect for differences, continued self-assessment, vigilance, on-going expansion of knowledge, adaptation
Culture
learned behaviors, values, customs, beliefs & symbols passed from generation
Cultural relativism
stresses variability of culture, emphasizes need to understand other cultures in-context
Cultural competence continuum (DIB)
cultural destructiveness -> cultural incapacity -> cultural blindness -> cultural pre-competence -> cultural competence -> cultural proficiency
cultural blindness
assumes all people all the same (services inherently ethnocentric)
cultural pre-competence
recognition of cultural difference w recognition of system weakness
cultural proficiency
culture is held in high regard (research, dissemination of results, development of new approaches)
Developmental Process (DESK-A)
- awareness
- knowledge
- skills
- encounters
- desire
Euro-American culture
-individualism, time keeping, future oriented, doing/achieving, youthfulness, informality, competition, gender equality
Cross-cultural
-collectivism, loos time keeping, past-oriented, being, old age, formality, cooperation, relative inequity
subcultures in US
religion, language, skin color, sexual orientation
social determinants of health
- condition in which people are born, grow, live, work, age (including health system)
- shaped by distribution of money, power, and resources
- responsible for health inequities
health inequities
unfair and unavoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries
health disparities
any group w significant disparities compared to general pop in: disease incidence, morbidity/mortality, survival time
