Culture competency and Assessment

Culture competency and Assessment

Introduction

Cultural competency is an essential factor, which can significantly reduce the health disparities, as well as, improve access to high quality health care. The concepts surrounding this subject provides a positive effect on the delivery of patient care by encouraging the healthcare providers to deliver services, which are both “respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients,” (NIH, 2012). The implementation of cultural competency as a framework, it enables the overall systems, agencies, and specific group of professionals for effectively functioning to comprehend the particular needs ...