Question

Discuss the differences among the terms cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, cultural relevancy, cultural competence, and cultural humility.

Which ones of these do you aspire to in your work with the health system? Illustrate how you will incorporate them into your work.

Answer 1

Cultural awareness refers to the understanding of an individual about the distinction between their own cultures with the culture of other individuals in the society.

Cultural sensitivity refers to the awareness about cultural differences while being not present is for bias towards the cultures of individuals other than themselves in the society.

Cultural relevancy refers to the association of a particular thing or activity with a particular respective culture in the society.

Cultural competency refers to the ability to understand and Express effective communication while keeping cultural differences in mind.

Cultural humility e refers to you are positive attitude towards the culture of other individuals in the society especially by overcoming cultural biases in our own mentality.

One way by which discrepancy can be reduced by expressing cultural competence as a Health Care worker is through consideration of cultural aspects of the patient while suggesting them treatment methods, diagnosis and prognosis.

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