What are the concepts of cultural awareness?
Cultural Awareness: Recognition of the nuances of one’s own and other cultures. Cultural Competence: The ability of individuals to use academic, experiential, and interpersonal skills to increase their understanding and appreciation of cultural differences and similarities within, among, and between groups.
What is cultural competence in health care system?
Cultural competency in health care describes the ability of systems to provide care to patients with diverse values, beliefs and behaviors, including the tailoring of health care delivery to meet patients’ social, cultural and linguistic needs.
What is its relationship with cultural awareness and cultural competence?
Cultural awareness is a basic understanding that there is diversity in cultures across the population. Cultural competency extends beyond individual skills or knowledge to influence the way that a system or services operate across cultures. It is a process that requires ongoing learning.
How can healthcare promote cultural competence?
WHAT IS CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTH CARE?
- Provide interpreter services.
- Recruit and retain minority staff.
- Provide training to increase cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills.
- Coordinate with traditional healers.
- Use community health workers.
- Incorporate culture-specific attitudes and values into health promotion tools.
What are the principles of cultural competence?
Cultural competence mandates that organizations, programs and individuals must have the ability to:
- value diversity and similarities among all peoples;
- understand and effectively respond to cultural differences;
- engage in cultural self-assessment at the individual and organizational levels;
What are the benefits of cultural awareness?
When we interact in cross cultural situations, a lack of awareness can lead to bad or poor decisions. Cultural awareness helps us reduce the chances of making bad decisions and increases the chance of us making more insightful, considered decisions.