Cultural Competence in Prevention Plans
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Cultural Competence in Prevention Plans
Cultural competence is the ability to respect and effectively respond to individual health beliefs and practices while also embracing the patient population’s cultural and linguistic diversity. Cultural blindness is the inability to comprehend and apply cultural competence. Cultural blindness leads to incompetent healthcare systems, medical errors, and patient risks (Rangel & Valdez, 2017). So we must adapt cultural competence for high-quality care and abolish discriminatory healthcare systems.
Ways to demonstrate cultural competencies in prevention plans
To demonstrate cultural competency in prevention plans, professionals must include three factors. First, adopt “people first.” This concept encourages professionals to view people as individuals and thus adopt preventive strategies free of biases and stereotypes. The “people first” philosophy promotes systemic interventions while promoting equity in preventative measures (Rangel & Valdez, 2017). In addition, training other professionals to look for specific conditions or traits in a target population, for example Obesity, asthma, and urinary tract infections (UTI) are common secondary symptoms in the LGBTQ and disabled communities (Rangel & Valdez, 2017). Third, include interventions that help priority population patients navigate the patient-provider relationship and the healthcare system. It includes strategies to overcome physical and other obstacles to quality healthcare. Using the three methods above can help preventive plans demonstrate cultural competence.
How Professionals cause harm with culturally insensitive preventive plans
Culturally insensitive plans impede effective preventive care delivery within healthcare systems. As a result of being culturally insensitive, the healthcare system’s prevention, care, and treatment programs are contradicted. when planners fail to incorporate cultural competence (Handtke et al., 2019). The plans have a high probability of causing harm. These insensitive plans do not engage the community as recruitment partners and do not make specific changes to prevention interventions. The professionals have a culturally insensitive plan once essential strategies are contradicted, as shown above. To avoid causing harm, preventive strategies must incorporate all components of cultural competence.
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Handtke, O., Schilgen, B., & Mösko, M. (2019). Culturally competent healthcare – a scoping review of strategies implemented in healthcare organizations and a model of culturally competent healthcare provision. PLOS ONE, 14(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219971
Rangel, D. E., & Valdez, C. R. (2017). A culturally sensitive approach to large-scale prevention studies: A case study of a randomized controlled trial with low-income Latino communities. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 38(6), 627–645. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-017-0487-2