Exam 2: cultural comp Flashcards
What are different social groups that have an influence on health and illness? (8)
What is health disparities? What is an example?
Difference between the health status of groups
* Differences among populations in the availability, accessibility, & quality of health care services
* Rural vs. Urban
What are soical detminants of health?
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.
What are the social deteminants of health? (8)
What is culture?
Is associated with norms, values, & traditions passed down through generations
What is intersectionality?
Simultaneous membership in multiple social groups with social & political contexts
What is oppression?
Formal & informal system of advantages & disadvantages tied to membership in social groups
What is transcultural healthcare?
- Culture that is Universal = similarities
- Differences among cultures – specific to particular groups
What is the goal of culturally congruent care?
Culturally Congruent Care
* Fits life patterns, values, & system of meaning
What is their a lack of among HCP?
Lack of cultural diversity
Cultural Competence
* What does it help eliminate?
* What do HCP continuously strive to achieve?
- Helps eliminate healthcare disparities & ultimately health disparities
- Healthcare providers continuously strive to achieve the availability and ability to effectively work within the cultural context of the client
T/F: Cultural competence evolves over time -> ongoing process
TRUE
What is the goal of Culturally Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)?
Advance health equity, improve quality & help eliminate health care disparities
What are the cultral competence components? (5)
- Cultural Awareness
- Cultural Knowledge
- Cultural Skills
- Cultural Encounters
- Cultural Desire
Cultural Competence:
* Enabling of health care providers to do what?
deliver services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients.
What is important about aloe vera?
What are the aloe vera findings? (9)
- Skin Protection
- Digestive Diseases Protection
- Anti-Inflammatory Activity
- Antidiabetic Effect
- Antioxidant Properties
- Bone Protection
- Cardioprotective Effect
- Antimicrobial & Prebiotic Activity
- Anticancer Effects
What is cultural competence?
Necessary set of skills for providers to attain in order to render effective patient-centered care
What is patient centered care?
Provide individualized care & restore an emphasis on personal relationships
Cross-Cultural Communication
* What are the goals of effective cross cultural communication or cultural competecy? (3)
- to understand illness from the perspective of thepatient;
- to assist patients in understanding diseases and treatments from the perspective ofbiomedicine
- to help patients and their families navigate, express themselves, and feel comfortable within large, complex, and often impersonal health care organizations.
Teaching Medical Spanish to Improve Population Health: Evidence for Incorporating Language Education and Assessment in U.S. Medical Schools
* What are the two statements?
- Language concordance between patients and physicians is an important factor in providing safe and effective health care.
- Spanish is the predominant and fastest growing non-English language in the United Sates
What is the review of literature of Teaching Medical Spanish to Improve Population Health: Evidence for Incorporating Language Education and Assessment in U.S. Medical Schools?
Review of Literature: Literature to date supports that for medical Spanish education to improve patient outcomes, it should be linked to assessment methodology that demonstrates improvement in language concordance with Spanish- speaking patients and should include safety measures to prevent inadvertent communication errors.
Teaching Medical Spanish to Improve Population Health: Evidence for Incorporating Language Education and Assessment in U.S. Medical Schools
* What is the conclusion?
