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1. How does culture influence the decisions a provider may make when selecting an intervention?
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2. Explain how culture impacts provider attitudes? Does it? How will you assess your own attitudes
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about various cultures/races/groups?
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3. Review the terms for this week and apply them to population health; for instance: cultural
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competence, cultural awareness, norms, values, Kleinman Explanatory Model, socioeconomic
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status, disparities, minorities, food dessert.
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o Culture - the practices, beliefs, values, and norms which can be learned or shared, and
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which guide the actions and decisions of each person in the group
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o Cultural competence - a dynamic, fluid, continuous process whereby an individual,
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system or health care agency find meaningful and useful care delivery strategies based
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on knowledge of the cultural heritage, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of those to whom
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they render care.
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▪ 4 principles of cultural competence – Caring is designed for the specific client.
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Care is based in the uniqueness of the person's culture and includes cultural
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norms and values. Care includes self-employment strategies to facilitate client
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decisions making to improve health behaviors. Care is provided with sensitivity
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and is based on the cultural uniqueness of clients.
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o Cultural awareness - Self-examination of one's own prejudices and biases toward other
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cultures. An in-depth exploration of one's own cultural/ethnic background
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o Cultural humility - A lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critiques, redressing
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the power of imbalances in the patient- physician dynamic, developing mutually.
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o Cultural knowledge - Obtaining a sound educational foundation concerning the various
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worldviews of differences cultures. Obtaining knowledge regarding biological variations,
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disease and health conditions and variation in drug metabolism.
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o Cultural skill - Ability to collect culturally relevant data regarding the client's health
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history and presenting problem. Ability to conduct culturally based physician
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assessments. Conducting these assessments in a culturally sensitive manner.
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o Norms and values - Specific practices that guide their actions and decisions of each
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person in a group based on their culture. Can be either learned or shared.
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o Kleinman Explanatory Model - A set of questions the advanced practice nurse can use in
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order to assess the culture of a patient and proposes that individuals have vastly
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different notions of health and disease.
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o Socioeconomic Status - A measure that takes into account three interrelated dimensions: a t t t t t t t t t t t t
persons income level, education level, and type of occupation. Some measures of
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socioeconomic status use only one dimension such as income.
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, o Disparities - A higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced by one
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group in relation to another. ex. Socioeconomic, health, racial or ethnic
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o Food dessert - Neighborhoods and communities that have limited access to affordable
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fresh and nutritious food
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o Ethnicity - the aggregate of cultural practices, social influences, religious pursuits, and
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racial characteristics shaping the distinctive identity of community
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4. What are the social determinants of health? How does a provider integrate knowledge of these
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social determinants of health into their practice? Why are they important?
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o Things like poverty, education level, racism, income and poor housing that affect access
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to healthcare. Biology and genetics, individual behavior, social environment, physical
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environment, and health services.
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5. Apply social justice theory to the provision of care; what does social justice mean when applied to
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health care?
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o The goal that all people will have equal opportunity to healthcare access and quality of
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healthcare will be the same
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6. What data sources are used to assess determinants of health?
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o Chronic Disease Indicators. Level of data: state, territory, select large metropolitan areas.
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The Chronic Disease Indicators enable public health professionals and policy makers to
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retrieve state and selected metropolitan-level data for chronic diseases and risk factors.
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o Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke. Level of data: national, state, territory, t t t t t t t t t t t t
county. The Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke enables online county-level
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mapping of heart disease and stroke by race/ethnicity, gender, and age group. Maps can
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show social and economic factors and health services for the United States, specific
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states, or territories.
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o National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention Atlas. Level of data:
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national, state, select territories. The Atlas provides interactive maps, graphs, tables, and
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figures showing geographic patterns and time trends of the reported occurrence of the
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following diseases: HIV, AIDS, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and
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primary and secondary syphilis. The data are based on nationally notifiable infectious
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diseases in the United States and can be used to examine disparities.
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o National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. Level of data: national, state,
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county. The Tracking Network is a system of integrated health, exposure, and hazard
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information and data from a variety of national, state, and city sources. Maps, tables,
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and charts with data about environmental indicators (e.g., particulate matter in the air)
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are available.
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