Cultural Diversity in the Medical Field Patient Relations Abstract The United States is a nation of immigrants; they have virtually every culture of the world within its borders. Due to this reason‚ there must be a certain level of cultural competency within its people. A comparison and contrast will be made to compare the Hispanic cultural views on medical care to the American cultural views toward medical care. I chose to explore Hispanic culture because of my background but most importantly
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Racial Diversity in Society Worksheet Part 1 Hispanic/Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic minority and the second largest ethnic minority in the United States. The Hispanic/Latino groups mostly live in one of nine states in the United States; as of 1996‚ controlled 75 percent of the electoral votes (Danelle‚ 1996). There are four groups of people that are known as Latinos and Hispanics and are from Mexico‚ Puerto Rico‚ Cuba‚ and other Latin American Origins (Danelle‚ 1996). “The Latino
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Cultural Diversity in Our Community NAME Axia College of University of Phoenix Cultural Diversity I was walking down the street the other day when I stopped and took a hard look at all the different people‚ businesses‚ and cultures that surrounded me. My first thought was "wow‚ we really live in a world that is held together by a wide variety of ethnic groups." Without all the different cultures and influences that I have experienced‚ I would not be the person I am today. Ethnicity
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Four: Hispanics in America; staring points In Ada Diaz’s article Hispanic in America: starting points‚ she explains how Hispanics in America are not here to repel against the American society‚ and have nothing but respect towards this country. Hispanics in America; starting points was published in may13‚ 1991 issue of Christianity in crisis. Diaz explains the struggles of Hispanics throughout America and‚ shows how the struggle does exist. She writes from the perspective of a Hispanic woman herself
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Cultural diversity is a major epidemic in this world today. There are many small towns that do not want to deal with the diversity of people and do not want to accept diversity into their community. My community‚ which is known as Princeton‚ was developed in the early 1800 ’s‚ and we are one of those communities. The most common issues with cultural diversity are race and gender. Although the majority of people in my community feel that the days of cultural diversity are long gone‚ I would have
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Cultural Diversity: Religious and Ethnic Groups Paper Jehovah’s Witnesses and Hispanics: More in Common Than You Think… Today’s Jehovah’s Witness‚ formed at the end of the 19th century near Pittsburg‚ Pennsylvania. Formerly known as the International Bible Students‚ they are an internationally recognized religious group‚ comprised of approximately 19 million active members‚ across 239 nations. This unique assemblage of individuals have since firmly implanted their footprint in American and Christian
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The majority of the members of my community do look like me. My community has been predominately white for many years. The total population for my neighborhood is 63‚000 people. Of that number 34‚500 are whites‚ 16‚400 are African-Americans‚ 11‚900 are Hispanic‚ 2‚700 are Asians and 7‚000 are other races. The only way that members of my community look the same as I do is that we are all creatures of God. When you talk about members of the community looking different from me then we get into
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Introduction For many companies‚ marketing to the Hispanic community has proven to be very challenging. Sonic drive-in is one of these companies that are currently exploring the ways to target this group. Problem Because there are so many different cultures within the Hispanic community‚ researchers have found it very difficult to target this group as a whole. Many companies don’t believe Latino’s to be a viable target and they don’t want to spend the time or money trying to research this
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Diversity “Providing Culture-Sensitive Healthcare to Hispanic/Latino Patients” A Hispanic patient with a high fever may resist cold compress because their theory of “hot” and “cold” imbalance. They use hot things to cure cold and cold thing to cure the body being “hot”. For instance within the American medical field we use heat foe hot. If you’re running a fever things that makes you sweat it out are better. So the difficulties that the Hispanic patient will bring is simply not following
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Status of America’s Hispanic Population Current Health Status of America’s Hispanic Population Kathy Curtis NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion Current Health Status of America’s Hispanic Population The Hispanic/Latino population of the United States is growing to be largest ethnic group in the country. This population faces barriers to health and well-being‚ also known as structural violence. “Compared with other groups in the United States‚ the Hispanic population is least
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