Culural Awareness Flashcards
What helps improve the quality of health care and health care communication?
Integration of cross-cultural education into curriculum
What can be a barrier to improving healthcare for minority patients?
Lack of cultural awareness
What is culture?
A complex pattern of shared meanings, beliefs, ideas, rules,, and behaviors
- Learn and acquired
What are the four primary characteristics of culture/
- Learned from birth though socialization and language
- Attitudes, beliefs, and customs
* Unlimited opportunities vs. enormous restrictions - Adapted to specific conditions, like environment
- Dynamic and ever-changing
- Shared by most members of that particular cultural group
What are the common features of culture?
- Patterns of interaction and communication
- Social organizations
- Role expectation
- Politics
- Geography
- Economics
What are the cultures of poverty?
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
What are the benefits of promoting LGBT health?
- Reduction in disease transmission and progression
- Increased mental and physical well-being
- Reduced health care costs
- Increased longevity
What is the difference between cultural characteristics and physical characteristics?
- We can modify cultural differences
- Learn a new language
- Can’t change physical characteristics as easily
* Gender
* Skin color
What is cultural humility?
A process that requires humility as individuals continually engage in self-reflection and self-critique as lifelong learners and reflective practitioners
What are the different things you can do to practice cultural humility?
- 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
What are the three dimensions of Cultural Humility?
- Self-awareness
- Respectful Communication
- Collaborative Partnerships
What are the values of cultural sensitive care?
-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
What is the definition of cultural competence?
-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
How should you show collaborative partnerships?
- listen and validate emotions
- build you patient relationship on respect and mutual acceptable plans
What are the core cultural issues?
- authority
- Physical contact
- communication styles
- gender
- sexuality
- family
Situations, interactions, or behaviors that have potential for cross-cultural misunderstanding
What are the 3 most common cultural variables that affect patient assessment?
- Health beliefs and practices
- Family relationships
- Communication
What are the aspects of health beliefs and practices?
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
What is the biomedical or scientific theory?
- disease is result of cause and effect
- specific and very narrow cause of diseases and specific treatments
- More compatible with “western Medicine”
What is the naturalistic or holistic approach?
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
What is the Magico-religious theory?
- based on belief of supernatural forces both good and evil
- fate of person depends on action
- Belief in voo-doo or witch-craft
What is the definition of Acculturation?
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
