Preliminary - Culture and Healthcare PDF

Preliminary - Culture and Healthcare effect on patient care delivery by enabling providers to deliver services respectfully and What is Culture? respo...

Preliminary - Culture and Healthcare effect on patient care delivery by enabling providers to deliver services respectfully and What is Culture? responsive to health beliefs, - Culture is the literacy and practices, and cultural and characteristics of a particular linguistics needs of diverse group of people. patient. - Based their own beliefs and faith regarding religion, cuisine, Why is Cultural Respect Important? language, and social habits. - Cultural respect is critical to reducing health inequality. Facts Culture - It helps improve access to high- - It involves through time and is quality health care that is dynamic respectful and responsive to - Culture is taught and learned by diverse patients generation - Cultural respect enables systems, - Culture is shared among a group of agencies and groups of people under the same name and professionals to function understanding effectively to understand the - Identified through symbols needs of groups (gender, color, behavior, and music) Managing Cultural Differences in - Integrated on an individual’s life in Healthcare all aspects - One challenge is that patients may not realize they have customs that Elements of Culture could jeopardize their wellness. - Personal identification - Language The impact of Culture (custom) on - Thoughts healthcare - Communication - Culture influences patients’ - Actions responses to illness and - Customs treatment. - Beliefs - Values Why is Cultural Competence Important - Institutions in Health Care? - Health care settings are to reduce What is Cultural Respect? racial, economic, ethnic, and - Culture is described as the social disparities when meeting a combination of a body of community’s health care needs. knowledge, belief and behavior. - Competent health care environments start with Cultural Respect is Important awareness of one’s own cultural - For health care, the concept of background and experiences and cultural respect has a positive the need to limit their influence John Lei Ephrain N. Clemente – BSN 2A  when interacting with people from - Culture is defined as the symbols, other cultures and experiences. languages, beliefs, values and - Requires an understanding of and artifacts that are part of any respect for other cultures. society. - Requires responding to patients in ways that are consistent with their Symbols cultural practices. - Every culture is filled with symbols or things that represent something Cultural Dimensions: Hofstede else and often evoke different - Framework for cross-cultural reactions and emotions. communication. - He shows that regional and - Some symbols are types of national cultures do have nonverbal communication, while considerable impact on people’s others are physical objects. behavior. Shared icons make social - 1967-1973 came up with five interaction possible. dimensions Language Individualistic/Collectivistic – How personal needs and goals are prioritized - Perhaps our most important set of vs. the needs and goals of the symbols is language. group/clan/organization. - In English, the word “chair” means something we sit on. In Spanish, Masculine/Feminine – Masculine the word “silla” means the same societies have different rules for men and thing. women, less so in feminine cultures. Norms Uncertainty Avoidance – How comfortable are people with changing the - Cultures differ widely in their way they work or live (low UA) or prefer norms, or standards and the known systems (high UA). expectations for behaving Power Distance – The degree people are Rituals comfortable with influencing upwards. Accept of inequality in distribution on - Different cultures also have power in society. different rituals, or established procedures and ceremonies that Time Perspective – Long-term often mark transitions in the life perspective, planning for future, course. perseverance values vs. short time past - Rituals both reflect and transmit a and present oriented. culture’s norms and other The Elements of Culture elements from one generation to the next. John Lei Ephrain N. Clemente – BSN 2A Values - Values are another important element of culture and involve judgment of what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable. - A culture’s values shape its norms. Artifacts - The artifacts, or material objects, that constitute a society’s material culture. - In the simplest societies, artifacts are largely limited to a few tools, the huts people live in, and the clothing they wear. John Lei Ephrain N. Clemente – BSN 2A