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Cultural competence in mental health care: a review of model evaluations

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2007
Background Cultural competency is now a core requirement for mental health professionals working with culturally diverse patient groups. Cultural competency training may improve the quality of mental health care for ethnic groups.
McKenzie Kwame   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Concept Analysis in relation to the Cultural Competency of the Palliative Care Workforce in Meeting the Needs of Young People from South Asian Cultures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Although recent UK and European health and social care policy and legislation has expressed a commitment towards making services equitable and accessible to families from BAME cultures, it is apparent that members of South Asian communities may be ...
Anita Franklin   +15 more
core   +2 more sources

Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Eliminating indigenous and ethnic health inequities requires addressing the determinants of health inequities which includes institutionalised racism, and ensuring a health care system that delivers appropriate and equitable care.
Elana Curtis   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking cultural competence [PDF]

open access: yesTranscultural Psychiatry, 2012
In recent years, cultural competence has become a popular term for a variety ofstrategies to address the challenge of cultural diversity in mental health services.This issue of Transcultural Psychiatry presents papers from the McGill AdvancedStudy Institute in Cultural Psychiatry on ‘‘Rethinking Cultural Competencefrom International Perspectives ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Cultural competency: professional action and South Asian carers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Inequality and exclusion are characteristic of the experience of UK South Asian communities. In health care, community needs are often not addressed by health and social welfare services.
Mir, G., Tovey, P.
core   +1 more source

Practice of pharmacy and language competency: delivery of an integrated cross-cultural care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Student pharmacists in countries where English is used for on-campus instruction but is not the national language may face difficulties when it comes to effectual communication with patients during experiential learning in clinical settings.
Ahmadi, Katayoon   +2 more
core   +1 more source

“Making time to make a difference”: Program Effects of a Cultural Competency Training

open access: yesJournal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2021
By the year 2044, more than half the United States population will be non-white. Extension is faced with the challenge of being inclusive in our multicultural world; thus, it is important that Extension educators receive cultural competency training ...
Anna P. Whitehall   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global competency impact of sustained remote international engagement for students

open access: yesBMC Medical Education, 2023
Background To provide just equity in academic exchange, as well as to reduce prohibitive travel cost and address environmental concerns, the past paradigm of international student exchange has fundamentally shifted from one directional travel to mutually
Tracy Kelly   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural competency in the delivery of health services for Indigenous people [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Aim and objectives This review aims to examine available evidence on cultural competence in health care settings to identify key approaches and strategies that can contribute to improving the development and implementation of Indigenous health services ...
Anton Clifford   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

The role and implications of mammalian cellular circadian entrainment

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
At their most fundamental level, mammalian circadian rhythms occur inside every individual cell. To tell the correct time, cells must align (or ‘entrain’) their circadian rhythm to the external environment. In this review, we highlight how cells entrain to the major circadian cues of light, feeding and temperature, and the implications this has for our
Priya Crosby
wiley   +1 more source

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