Cultural Competence In Healthcare
The struggle with diverse community among healthcare system has been a part of the cultural competency and the diverse cultural limiting the ability for health care professionals to facilitate and deliver patient-centered care across cultural lines. The studies has predicted that the rise of Asian American and their descendants is increasing quite fast by 8% of the United States of America (USA) population by 2020 (Park, Chesla, Rehm, Chun, 2011). As the numbers rapidly increases, the cultural competency require more essential skill for healthcare providers to supply the demand. The availability of hospitals and hospice are also in effect due to large number of elderly men and women with condition or a pre-condition health issues. The diverse
aged group also has a package of medical issues they challenge with on daily such as cancer. Cancer has been known to be a leading cause of death rate sub-groups of Asian Americans and the most critical risk factor is breast cancer commonly diagnosed among Asian American women. Both men and women are also prone to liver, colorectal and lung cancer (Yoo, Musselman, Lee, Melichar, 2015). Along with cancer, heart disease which is the number one cause of death among men and women in the United States and a major contributor to disability among older adults (Yoo, Musselman, Lee, Melichar, 2015). The challenges healthcare providers’ faces are not the delivery of healthcare but the appropriate approach to the diverse-culture patients. The challenge will be educate on culture differences, culture values, modern medicine, technology, linguistic availability, and a support team that will aide and enable a doctor-patient flow. Also educate patients of health concerns, health alert, screening preventions guide and how to live a healthy lifestyle. The Asian Americans that are not properly educate and taught how to take care of themselves are at fault by default of the availability the healthcare professions can offer. The obstacle of the language barrier is the lack of culture behavior learning which with obtaining the specific needs for the specific patients, trust can create.
aged group also has a package of medical issues they challenge with on daily such as cancer. Cancer has been known to be a leading cause of death rate sub-groups of Asian Americans and the most critical risk factor is breast cancer commonly diagnosed among Asian American women. Both men and women are also prone to liver, colorectal and lung cancer (Yoo, Musselman, Lee, Melichar, 2015). Along with cancer, heart disease which is the number one cause of death among men and women in the United States and a major contributor to disability among older adults (Yoo, Musselman, Lee, Melichar, 2015). The challenges healthcare providers’ faces are not the delivery of healthcare but the appropriate approach to the diverse-culture patients. The challenge will be educate on culture differences, culture values, modern medicine, technology, linguistic availability, and a support team that will aide and enable a doctor-patient flow. Also educate patients of health concerns, health alert, screening preventions guide and how to live a healthy lifestyle. The Asian Americans that are not properly educate and taught how to take care of themselves are at fault by default of the availability the healthcare professions can offer. The obstacle of the language barrier is the lack of culture behavior learning which with obtaining the specific needs for the specific patients, trust can create.