Cultural Competence: Enhancing Public Health and Reducing Disparities

This essay provides an overview of cultural competence in the context of public health. It defines cultural competence as the ability to recognize, appreciate, and interact with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds, emphasizing its three dimensions: attitude, behavior, and awareness. The essay highlights the vital role of cultural competence in public health, especially in improving healthcare interactions for individuals with chronic conditions. It also explains how cultural competence reduces health disparities by enhancing providers' abilities to deliver effective care, educating them about population-specific conditions, and reflecting values that promote service accessibility and acceptability. The essay concludes with a community-based example of a hair fair promoting health and disease prevention, illustrating the importance of communal perception and vigorous health goals.

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Q1
According to the author, culture competence is one of the ability to recognize, appreciate, as
well as intermingle with the individual from system of culture or trust other that one’s own
that depends on numerous factors. It is divided into three dimensions that include attitude,
behaviour as well as awareness.
Attitude: it incorporate culturally skilful healthcare provider, which represent sensitivity
towards the individuals those of differing cultures than their own.
Awareness: it can be defined as the knowledge cultural resemblances as well as variations.
The individual should consider own tendencies, thoughts, ideas as well as biases.
Behaviour: It can be representing as the actions in which the healthcare professional indicate
when acclimatizing as well as amending the care to be customarily consistent (Shen, 2015).
Q2
The cultural competence plays a vital role in the public health. The individual with the
condition of chronic require the health services that enhance their interaction with the system
of health care. If the provider as well as organizer with system are not working together to
provide the culturally competent care than at that condition the patients will be at risk of
having the negative consequences of health that enhance dissatisfaction among them at
greater level.
Q3
There are certain manners through which cultural competence reduces health disparities as
they are explained in below points:

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 The cultural competence enhance the ability of the providers to provide health care
services in more effective manner to the patients who are unlike the providers in
important manners.
 It helps in educating the provider about how to look for, the common secondary
conditions, which is specific to the target populations.
 The cultural competence successfully affirms as well as reflects such values that
determine the appropriateness, accessibilities, utilization as well as acceptability of
services that help in reducing the health disparities (Garneau & Pepin, 2015).
Q4.
I have found in our community in which we have achieved huge success s by doing hair fair.
We not only provide our services to the public but also partnered with some of the local
businesses as well. In the last two years I have experienced that eradicating discrepancies,
attaining the fitness equity as well as refining the heath for all the clusters are predictable to
generate the vigorous perception of communal as most of the vigorous folks specified their
goals for health promotion as well as prevention of diseases.

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References
Garneau, A. B., & Pepin, J. (2015). Cultural competence: A constructivist definition. Journal
of Transcultural Nursing, 26(1), 9-15.
Shen, Z. (2015). Cultural competence models and cultural competence assessment
instruments in nursing: a literature review. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 26(3),
308-321.

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