Cultural Competence in Health Care Service

Policy The primal goal for every healthcare institution is to ensure that every patient receives the best healthcare services in order to promote the co-existence of a healthy society. Apparently, every medical practitioner s required to diligently serve every patient without judging their physical, mental, financial, or cultural state (Adams, 2012). Despite it being an applicable code of conduct in this professionalism, practitioners have to ensure that that the levels of health disparities in their respective healthcare institutions are significantly reduced to attain the targeted optimal healthcare service delivery. Access to health care services is another aspect in health policies affected by cultural competence. Studies indicate that the process through which certain individuals conform to the healthcare services provided by an identified institution or practitioner is paramount to assuring the health state of a community.

Seemingly, some studies indicated that a portion of Cambodian adults who received informal education, apply almost similar therapeutically health interventions with those relevant in advanced medical institutions. With this, it is evident that both the two cultures have the same ideology but the mode of application is quite different, which forces modernized practitioners to be conversant with the traditional healing techniques of certain cultures. The essence of this exercise is to ensure that the modernized doctors could easily advise a patient from an ethnic culture, who understands traditional modes of treatments, to accept modernized treatment interventions. For example, a certain study conducted in Russia indicated that a majority of Russians, most often than not, consider the U. S. For example, some cultures around the world use natural substances as remedies to cure specific illness, which many modernized healthcare institutions do not have (Betancourt, et al.

Apparently, the natural remedies used by these distinct cultures come from parts of a plat like flowers seeds, leaves as well as the bark of some trees. Health and Human Service delivery One of the vital procedures for ensuring that a patient can recover fully from his or her condition comes from the type of service delivery offered in the institution. With cases on ineffective service delivery by medical institutions being experienced almost on a daily basis, critics have been arguing that modern health institutions have been lagging behind in promoting effective health services to their patients. However, practitioners, on their side, have been lamenting that their patient’s traditional customs have been interfering with the effective application of healthcare service delivery (Rose, 2011). Nevertheless, a majority of traditional medicines that have been used since the earlier centuries to the latter ear are fully functional.

For example, the people of Turkey have been using the Mesir paste, composed of cinnamon, black pepper, orange peel, coconut and liquorice roots, to cue almost any disease related to humans. Also, the culture of Singapore advocates for the effective adherence to balanced dies since the traditionalist attests that one’s food can be their medicine and vice versa. Conclusion By virtue that both the traditional as well as the modernized healthcare interventions have equal and effective means of curing even the most dreaded diseases like Cancer, diabetes, among others it is essential that both the cultures exchange relative knowledge on their expertise to achieve the most desirable intervention plan. References Adams, J. Defining cultural competence: a practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care.  Public health reports.

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