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Cultural Awareness and
Competence in Health Care
Ideally, health-care providers are compassionate
and want to provide optimal care to their patients,
but everyone has biases and knowledge gaps that
may hinder the provision of quality health care.
These biases and knowledge gaps can lead to:
* barriers to care;
* miscommunications;
* misdiagnoses; and
* lack of trust.
As the United States continues to become more
diverse, cultural awareness and competence are
key for health-care providers.
Culture, Cultural Awareness, and
Cultural Competence
Culture is defined as the personal identification,
language, thoughts, communications, actions,
customs, beliefs, values, and institutions that are often
specific to ethnic, racial, religious, geographic,
or social groups. For health-care providers, these
elements influence beliefs and belief systems surrounding
health, healing, wellness, illness, disease,
and delivery of health services.1
Cultural awareness is the ability to perceive
our own cultural beliefs, values, and customs,
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and to understand how they shape our decisions
and behavior.
Cultural competence is being conscious of
our own biases and how they may affect how we
interact with others.
What is Culturally Competent
Health Care?
Culturally competent health care is the ability of
practitioners to address the health issues of people
from diverse backgrounds effectively by applying
knowledge, empathy, and insight into the views on
health that people of those backgrounds present.
Culture can influence how patients perceive symptoms
and health conditions, when and how patients
seek care, patients' expectations of care, patients'
preferences regarding procedures or treatments,
patients' willingness to follow recommendations or
treatment plans, and who patients believe should
participate in making health-care decisions.2
Cultural competence leads to improved
patient outcomes by improving communication.
Clear communication allows health-care
providers to collect accurate information and
encourages active dialogues in which patients
and their physicians can ask questions, correct

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APMA News - September/October 2023 - Intro
APMA News - September/October 2023 - CT1
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APMA News - September/October 2023 - Cover1
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