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Cultural competence in healthcare

Index Cultural competence in healthcare

Cultural competence in healthcare refers to the ability for healthcare professionals to demonstrate cultural competence toward patients with diverse values, beliefs, and feelings. [1]

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AIDS service organization

AIDS service organizations are community-based organizations that provide support for people affected by HIV/AIDS.

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Conversion therapy

Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of trying to change an individual's sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual using psychological or spiritual interventions.

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Education in the United States

Education in the United States is provided by public, private and home schools.

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Equality California

Equality California or EQCA is a non-profit civil rights organization that advocates for the rights of LGBT people in California.

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Health system

A health system, also sometimes referred to as health care system or as healthcare system, is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations.

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New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was established by U.S. President George W. Bush through on April 29, 2002 to conduct a comprehensive study of the U.S. mental health service delivery system and make recommendations based on its findings.

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Structural competency

Structural competency is a term used in American health professional education to describe the ability of health care providers and trainees to appreciate how symptoms, clinical problems, diseases and attitudes toward patients, populations and health systems are influenced by 'upstream' social determinants of health.

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Cultural competence in health care, Cultural competence in medicine.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_competence_in_healthcare

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