5. The Regulatory Basis
Accreditation organizations, such as the Joint Commission
on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO),
following up on standards of the National Standards for
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health
Care, commonly called the CLAS, require that health care
professionals receive training in delivery of services to
diverse populations, so do some state contracts for
Medicaid and Medicare.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are
recommending that health care organizations with whom they contract
for these services provide culturally and linguistically appropriate care.
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9. GROUP CULTURE
Accepted ways of behaving within the
organization or the group. This typically
includes attitudes, communications,
conduct, beliefs, values and actions.
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10. Demographics & Its Influence on
Healthcare
Population
Demographics
Practitioner
Demographics
Patient
Demographics
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18. The Etiology of Disease
Comparing the
patient’s explanatory
model with the
clinician’s explanatory
model
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19. The inherently unequal nature of power in all
clinical-patient relationships and why
But where does power
ultimately rest and how is
it exercised?
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20. Shared Decisions Making
The False-Consensus Effect:
“Across a wide range of beliefs and behaviors,
people assume that we are more like them than
we really are.”*
*Scientist and physician Dr. Peter Ubel
How to move from patient empowerment to
clinician-patient partnership
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21. What’s the the difference between patient trust
and patient satisfaction?
Two recent studies
show that when patients
trust a doctor strongly
this will influence
medication adherence.
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22. Health Literacy – What Is It & What Does It Mean?
Health literacy depends on cultural and linguistic factors, and patient
assessment tools that can efficiently collect information on patient
health literacy, linguistic ability, and cultural beliefs.
(Andrulis & Brach, 2007)
Key terms that explain via case
studies how culture and language
need to be considered in any
interaction designed to address
health literacy of culturally diverse
patients
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23. A Cultural Encounter
A cultural encounter is the direct engagement in
cross-cultural interactions. It allows for validation,
negation, or modification of existing cultural
knowledge, and provides all
parties with a culturally specific
frame-work from which
culturally competent
interventions can be designed.
Clinician: “Different people have very different ways of
understanding health and illness. Please help me understand what you
believe.”
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24. Cultural Safety
Connecting patient safety,
self-determination and trust*
What do we learn from the
sterilization of US citizens
and the inoculation of syphilis?
*Madeleine Leininger and Irihapeti Ramsden
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25. The Pachter Inquiry*
LP: “I’ve been told that there are ways of treating
(specific illness) that doctors don’t know about,
but people such as your grandparents and older
people know about.”
*Lee Pachter, OD, Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, Drexel University Medical School
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26. Hospice
Hospice care provides humane
and compassionate care for
people in the last phases of
incurable disease so that they
may live as fully and comfortably
as possible.
It is loaded with beliefs, ritual
and actions that impact how
care at this stage is delivered.
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27. Leadership Opportunities
Become familiar with the issues affecting and influencing
healthcare disparity and its connection to culture
Advocate for those who are receiving less than satisfactory
care because of cultural factors
Assist in educating, equipping and advocating for those who
have a sense of powerlessness during healthcare encounters
where culture may be an influencer
Insist on respectful, safe, and culturally competent care during
every healthcare intervention for you and your loved ones
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Requires system integration and this requires leadership. E.G: EHR; ACO;
PSA’s and Mammograms. Patient 95 with broken hip – replace? Or a brain tumor.
Schein: basic assumptions driving life in an organization.
Cultural competency is not for every one. It necessitates either vision or pain.
Competent: Someone who meets the standard of proficiency in the role performed.
The etiology of disease and the connection to epidemology.
A patient’s explanatory model frames the success of the patient/clinician encounter. Achieving success is a function of patient safety.Setting the stage to introduce cultural safety and shared decision making.
G. H. Hochbaum, AmberRosenstockThe health belief model proposes that a person's health-related behavior depends on the person's perception of four critical areas:1. the severity of a potential illness,2. the person's susceptibility to that illness,3. the benefits of taking a preventive action, and4. the barriers to taking that action
The clinician’s words and actions are credible and can be relied upon. ► The physician will act in the patient's best interest► The physician will provide support and assistance during health interventions
Health literacy is defined as being able to process and understand information about health and medical treatments to make basic decisions. It is the degree to which an individual can obtain, process, and understand information to communicate with others or make basic decisions
The syphilis and sterilization experience
Getting at specific questions to elicit information regarding alternative or complimentary methods being used.
Hindu healthcare customs and beliefs often contribute to the decisions for medical care and choice of healthcare services. The actions of supernatural forces and certain human excesses may be considered important in illness causation among Hindus, regardless of educational level. Deep-rooted beliefs about illnesses can inhibit the acceptance of scientific causes for disease, resulting in treatment challenges. Hindus believe in reincarnation and view death as the soul moving from one body to the next on its path to reach Nirvana, heaven.