Culural Awareness

Question 1

What helps improve the quality of health care and health care communication?

Answer 1

Integration of cross-cultural education into curriculum

Question 2

What can be a barrier to improving healthcare for minority patients?

Answer 2

Lack of cultural awareness

Question 3

What is culture?

Answer 3

A complex pattern of shared meanings, beliefs, ideas, rules,, and behaviors
- Learn and acquired

Question 4

What are the four primary characteristics of culture/

Answer 4

1. Learned from birth though socialization and language
   - Attitudes, beliefs, and customs
   * Unlimited opportunities vs. enormous restrictions
2. Adapted to specific conditions, like environment
3. Dynamic and ever-changing
4. Shared by most members of that particular cultural group

Question 5

What are the common features of culture?

Answer 5

• Patterns of interaction and communication
• Social organizations
• Role expectation
• Politics
• Geography
• Economics

Question 6

What are the cultures of poverty?

Answer 6

Different priorities
	-Daily survival rather than promotion and prevention 
		*Food and shelter
Limited access to healthcare
	-Location of medical facilities
	-Transportation to facilities
	-Immigration status
	-Lack of insurance

Question 7

What are the benefits of promoting LGBT health?

Answer 7

• Reduction in disease transmission and progression
  
  • Increased mental and physical well-being
  • Reduced health care costs
  • Increased longevity

Question 8

What is the difference between cultural characteristics and physical characteristics?

Answer 8

• We can modify cultural differences
  
  • Learn a new language
• Can’t change physical characteristics as easily
  * Gender
  * Skin color

Question 9

What is cultural humility?

Answer 9

A process that requires humility as individuals continually engage in self-reflection and self-critique as lifelong learners and reflective practitioners

Question 10

What are the different things you can do to practice cultural humility?

Answer 10

• Examining cultural beliefs and cultural systems of both patients and providers
• Locating points of cultural disharmony, confusion or conflict that contribute to patients’ health outcomes

Question 11

What are the three dimensions of Cultural Humility?

Answer 11

1. Self-awareness
2. Respectful Communication
3. Collaborative Partnerships

Question 12

What are the values of cultural sensitive care?

Answer 12

-Creates the optimal patient-centered experience
-Allows for effective patient-provider communication
-Enables delivery of high quality, evidence based health care
-Achieves positive treatment outcomes and high patient
satisfaction rates

Question 13

What is the definition of cultural competence?

Answer 13

-Defined as the ability of systems to provide care to patients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors

Cultural competence is the end results of self reflection

Question 14

How should you show collaborative partnerships?

Answer 14

• listen and validate emotions

- build you patient relationship on respect and mutual acceptable plans

Question 15

What are the core cultural issues?

Answer 15

• authority
• Physical contact
• communication styles
• gender
• sexuality
• family

Situations, interactions, or behaviors that have potential for cross-cultural misunderstanding

Question 16

What are the 3 most common cultural variables that affect patient assessment?

Answer 16

1. Health beliefs and practices
2. Family relationships
3. Communication

Question 17

What are the aspects of health beliefs and practices?

Answer 17

Methods to maintain health 
Attitudes toward preventive health
Attitudes towards illness, pain, death, and ting
Preference of health care provider
Examination of body or procedures

Question 18

What is the biomedical or scientific theory?

Answer 18

• disease is result of cause and effect
• specific and very narrow cause of diseases and specific treatments
• More compatible with “western Medicine”

Question 19

What is the naturalistic or holistic approach?

Answer 19

More naturalistic approach
Broader view
Humans are only one part of nature
Forces of nature maybe good or bad 
May be at odds with western medical care

Question 20

What is the Magico-religious theory?

Answer 20

• based on belief of supernatural forces both good and evil
• fate of person depends on action
• Belief in voo-doo or witch-craft

Question 21

What is the definition of Acculturation?

Answer 21

The process by which an individual assumes the traits and behaviors of another culture

- adapting to it
- adopting its values
- shedding those of the group to which the person has been previously linked