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Cultural Sensitivities and Health

Current Issues in Global Health, 2018

Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and other capabilities acquired by man as a member of the society. Its components include knowledge, beliefs, norms, techniques, folkways, mores, laws, values, material culture, and universal culture. Health programs and interventions are more effective when they are "culturally appropriate" for the populations they serve. Each medical encounter provides the opportunity for the interface of several different cultures: the culture of the patient, the culture of the physician, and the culture of medicine. Peripheral, evidential, linguistic, constituent involving, and sociocultural strategies enable the health worker practice culturally sensitive healthcare delivery. Cultural targeting and cultural tailoring are applied to groups and individuals, respectively, by taking their peculiarities into account in making health care available to them. A combination of both approaches is recommended for optimal health outcomes. Cultural competency is the answer to the need for previously lacking cultural consideration in planning and delivering care. It enables the health worker overcome organizational and clinical barriers which continually impede efficient and effective healthcare delivery.

Culture and religious beliefs in relation to reproductive health

Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2016

Islam Muslim patients reproductive health health care health disparities religion An increasing number of contemporary research publications acknowledge the influence of religion and culture on sexual and reproductive behavior and health-care utilization. It is currently hypothesized that religious influences can partly explain disparities in sexual and reproductive health outcomes. In this paper, we will pay particular attention to Muslims in sexual and reproductive health care. This review reveals that knowledge about devout Muslims' own experience of sexual and reproductive health-care matters is limited, thus providing weak evidence for modeling of efficient practical guidelines for sexual and reproductive health care directed at Muslim patients. Successful outcomes in sexual and reproductive health of Muslims require both researchers and practitioners to acknowledge religious heterogeneity and variability, and individuals' possibilities to negotiate Islamic edicts. Failure to do so could lead to inadequate health-care provision and, in the worst case, to suboptimal encounters between migrants with Muslim background and the health-care providers in the receiving country.

Issues in clinical practice in a South Asian Muslim community

Psychiatric Bulletin, 1994

The bulk of transcultural research has concentrated on particular themes, which include parasuicides among British Asian women, schizophrenia among Afro-Carribeans, and clinical presentation of somatisation in different races (Littlewood & Lipsedge, 1989). The focus has largely been on clinical patterns of illness and the social determinant of distress as experienced by ethnic minorities in the community remains largely neglected. An attempt has been made, after two years experience of working in a Birmingham city catchment area with an Asian Muslim community, to highlight day to day cultural issues which directly or indirectly contribute to psychiatric morbidity.

Cultural competence in Medicine

AM. Rivista della Società Italiana di Antropologia Medica, 2001

It is only recently that the biomedical universe has become concerned with cultural diversity as a factor in health and disease. The growing tide of immigration from Third World countries into the First World has brought the subject to the attention of medical institutions such as the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics (1998, 1999). Various factors play a role in this subject. Just as health care is understood as a right and, in European countries, is regulated as universal and paid for by taxes, the concern about the peculiarities of minorities, how they gain access to care and how these peculiarities affect the management of disease processes becomes important. Across the ocean, in the managed care system of the US, the proper use of resources calls for a continuous concern for efficiency. Curiously enough for a country built on successive waves of immigrations throughout the 20 th century, the United States of America has only recently begun to consider cultural diversity. Even more, most references on the subject are related to the questions arising from Hispanic, Latin-American, immigrants (Committee on Pediatric Workforce, 1999, Fox, 2000). All the other immigrants in the past, mostly of European extraction, did not have distinctive cultural backgrounds of significant influence in their health, and health histories. Recently, the American Government Office for Minority Health made an effort to assure cultural competence in health care through a well-researched set of recommendations and guidelines (OMH, 2000) known as the standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS). These standards deal with the following points, among others: providing care that is respectful and compatible with cultural beliefs and given in the preferred language; recruiting staff representative of the demographic characteristics of the area; educating and training staff in cultural diversity; employ

Cultural diversity issues in the development of valid and reliable measures of health status

Arthritis Care & Research, 1997

A rapid growth of the United States Hispanic population is expected in the next decade. By the year 2000, Hispanics will constitute the largest minority group in the US, and already comprise 40% of the population in certain parts of California (1). The Southeast Asian population, while not growing at the rate of the Hispanic population, is very diverse both in culture and language. African-Americans are also a sizable group with unique health care needs. The ever-increasing cultural and ethnic diversity of the US necessitates a culturally competent approach to the delivery of health care. No longer can the assumptions of the Western medical model be applied across the board to all groups. In order to provide effective care, providers working among diverse groups must understand how to measure and assess health status, health care utilization, health behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes in these diverse groups. Culturally competent health care requires sensitivity to the differences that exist among groups, not only in outward behavior, but also in attitudes and in the meanings that one attaches to events such as pain, de

Cultural Competence in Health

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