Cultural Diversty within Healthcare

Going to various countries and regions of the world can open someone's eyes and you can see that culture has a great influence on understanding and practice of health care. This seems to be a common phenomenon in other parts of the world. When one person lives in the country for the rest of his life, he may not understand how different their life is from foreigners. If people are to be treated by people with different cultural backgrounds, they should be treated to respect their own culture.

Healthcare is an evolving field, where we face various cultures with different values, beliefs, customs and special group habits. Many of the challenges facing medical care include the language and cultural barriers that may affect medical care and the quality of medical care that patients can receive. Health provider interaction, preferred care treatment is part of the cultural behavior encountered in the day-to-day decision-making process. Cultural behavior and value can affect the use of preventive medicine, health-related lifestyle, and health related knowledge sources. Today's medical challenge is that the number of patients is different from the usual US population.

Medical practices and concerns for health care workers vary from culture to culture. (Volume 11) Patients vary in various aspects. These differences constitute the patient's illness, personality, socio-economic class or education, but the most unlimited change is culture. (8 pages) Ethnicity, religion, language, education, race, economic status are the essence of culture and have a great impact on personal health and welfare. (P. 21) Skills are essential to ensure that care is culturally consistent; cultural knowledge is important to promote communication with people (page 2). Nurses should communicate with patients effective and culturally competent, taking into account the individual oral and nonverbal languages, cultural values ​​and backgrounds, and unique medical needs and concepts is. (Page 9)

Part of the debate on the cultural ability of health care professionals is gained through leadership. In developing and implementing culturally sound strategies, we need to consider social relations and leadership in health services. Because the core people are not necessarily the same people as formal leaders, this requires a cautious attitude. The authors acknowledge that this research was funded by granting a research grant from Marie Dauvrin's Fond de la Recherche Scientifique de Belgique (Grant FC 84070 2009-2013). Marie Dauvrin is a postdoctoral researcher funded by INN Research for Brussels (INNOVIRIS) in Brussels, Belgium.