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Cultural competence is a practice of values and attitudes that aims to optimize the healthcare experience of patients with cross cultural backgrounds. [6] Essential elements that enable organizations to become culturally competent include valuing diversity, having the capacity for cultural self-assessment, being conscious of the dynamics ...
Healthy People 2030 is guided by the following principles: An equitable, thriving society depends on healthy people and communities. Physical, mental, and social health has to be considered when ...
Racial bias fuels healthcare disparities. Unconscious bias meets algorithms. Black communities disproportionately affected. Sustainable healthcare changes. When we seek medical care, we all hope ...
Diversify Dietetics ( DD ). They aim to increase racial and ethnic diversity in nutrition by empowering nutrition leaders of color and assisting aspiring dietitians of color with financial aid and ...
Cultural safety is the effective nursing practice of nursing a person or family from another culture; it is determined by that person or family. [1] [need quotation to verify] It developed in New Zealand, with origins in nursing education. An unsafe cultural practice is defined as an action which demeans the cultural identity of a particular ...
Schäufele: roasted pork basted with German beer that’s often served with potato dumplings and sauerkraut or creamed savoy cabbage. Pelau: a popular one-pot dish in the Caribbean made with ...
The United States Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". [3]
The Office of Minority Health ( OMH) is an American federal agency created in 1986. It is one of the most significant outcomes of the 1985 Secretary's Task Force Report on Black and Minority Health, also known as the "Heckler Report". The Heckler report "was a landmark effort in analyzing and synthesizing the present state of knowledge [in 1985 ...