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Clinical decision-making - Answers making decisions after a cultural assessment, physical
examination, etc.
Cultural assessment - Answers systematic comprehensive examination of individuals, families,
groups and communities regarding their health related cultural beliefs, values and practices
Cultural care accommodation or negotiation - Answers healthcare provider and the client
collaborating to create a shared plan of care that helps reach a desired health outcome.
Cultural care preservation or maintenance - Answers professional actions and decision that help
people of a particular culture preserve their well being
Cultural care repatterning or restructuring - Answers professional actions and decisions that
help clients reorder, change or greatly modify their lifestyle to help benefit their health.
Cultural competence - Answers cultural awareness, cultural skills, cultural knowledge, cultural
encounter and cultural desire
Cultural norms - Answers unconscious behavior patterns
Diversity - Answers people of different age, biology, sex, gender, identity, geographical,
language, religious, sexual orientation, etc.
Epigenetics - Answers study of how genes are influenced by forces such as environment, obesity
or medication
Equity - Answers being equal and treating others with equal care
Ethnohistory - Answers ancestry, cultural affiliation
Evaluation - Answers examinations of a patient and coming to a conclusion
Genetics - Answers branch of biology that studies heredity and the variations of inherit
characteristics.
Genome - Answers organism's complete set of DNA, all genes
Genomics - Answers addresses all genes and their interrelationships to identify their combined
influence on growth and development of the organism
Pain - Answers unpleasant sensory and emotional experience conveyed by the brain through
sensory neurons arising from actual or potential tissue damage to the body
Pharmacogenomics - Answers using race to stratify genetic risk