Deck 12: Wrapping Up: Cultural Competence in Public Health

Question 1

What do you think is meant by asserting that cultural competence is "everyday and reality-based"?

Answer 1

Cultural competence remains practical, daily-basis (everyday), and on reality:
Cultural competence remains as understanding role, which culture would play with health and human behavior. This is incorporated with understanding efforts of conceptualizing health related issues, conducting research, and collaboration of addressing relative practices.
This is the last principle that attempts taking mystery from the cultural competence and it works across different culture with health context of any domain.
In case a culture is recognized with human actions, it will become smaller concept (normal). Considering, it to a daily or a phenomenon of everyday, there will be a difference but not something exotic.
Cultural competence takes specific effort and time to learn. However, it fails involvement of partnership collaboration. In addition, there are no special aspects are used. Hence, cultural competence creates awareness within humanitarian concepts.

Question 2

If you are designing a health promotion program, where does cultural competence as we have defined it fit in the process?

Answer 2

Best fit of cultural competence into health promotion program designed:
Cultural competence remains as understanding role, which culture would play with health and human behavior. This is incorporated with understanding efforts of conceptualizing health related issues, conducting research, and collaboration of addressing relative practices.
Health promotion programs are created to maintain, monitor, and overcome health related difficulties of an individual and thereby his/her community. Cultural aspects are basic part of human social, cognitive, environmental, symbolic, biological, and behavioral factors.
For a specific condition, a group or society assesses manifested cultural factors over multi-levels. Here, language and symbols will not be pertinent to cultural factors. However, it is worthy to create programs to develop and implement valid and productive theorems and human relations still make it incalculable.
In U.S., majority factors arrive with guidelines and cultural competence framework. There are specific organizations for cultural competence, minority health, research and quality, cultural, and linguistic services. These points are now a basic reference of organizational and guidance program.
Hence, cultural competence will be given important from the initial phase of the process designed.

Question 3

In this chapter, there are three sets of cultural competence guidelines. What are the differences among these three?

Answer 3

Set of cultural competence guidelines and their differences:
Cultural competent is equal to the information of health with a suitable language inclusive of symbols or images that is vital for specific cultural group. It can be single dimensional and formulaic. In addition, cultural idea can be reinforced with others possession.
Here, nothing is inherently wrong or provides information of right language with symbols of culture. Hence, language and symbols are equally important. The set of cultural competence guidelines are not just with organizational setting, provider-patient relationship, and services.
These guidelines are the basic interaction of culture and health concerning the cultural competence definition given below:
Cultural competence remains as understanding role, which culture would play with health and human behavior. This is incorporated with understanding efforts of conceptualizing health related issues, conducting research, and collaboration of addressing relative practices.
The guidelines are framed with below principles. They are:
1. Health and culture are bound together in similar way as culture and other domains relating human life. This is an integrated phenomenon.
2. Culture is not add-on or items or set of traits pulled of their cultural context just as it is.
3. Cultural beliefs and corresponding patterns represent certain central tendencies more than a homogeneous pattern.
4. Culture is a sector of world that interacts with the truth of 50 years, which might not be same as today.
5. A cultural competence is more practical based on everyday and on reality.
These guidelines themselves remain as the difference. However, the boundary, viability, tradition width, practicality, and evolution are the major differences.

Question 4

What is the connection between cultural competence and the issue of health disparities? Discuss this in both a U.S. and global context.