Rayman Salim, Almas Khalid
CUNY-Eugenio Maria De Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY, USA.
J Contemp Dent Pract. 2007 May 1;8(4):43-51.
The aim of this paper is to highlight the need to integrate cultural care into dental hygiene practice.
Culture can be better understood through the concepts, beliefs, and norms of the culturally diverse population of the United States. It is important to understand cultural perceptions of oral health in order to manage transcultural barriers that may arise during the utilization of oral healthcare services. It is assumed cultural competence can only be achieved through the knowledge of various cultural backgrounds in an extremely diverse US population.
There is a need to integrate cultural awareness, knowledge, identification, and respect into the dental hygiene curriculum through the incorporation of competencies and standards associated with dental hygiene practice. Future dental hygienists should be culturally competent to render oral care to an ever expanding and diversified US population.
本文旨在强调将文化关怀融入口腔卫生实践的必要性。
通过美国文化多元人群的观念、信仰和规范能更好地理解文化。了解口腔健康的文化认知对于应对在使用口腔医疗服务过程中可能出现的跨文化障碍至关重要。假定只有通过了解美国极为多样化人群的各种文化背景才能实现文化胜任力。
有必要通过纳入与口腔卫生实践相关的能力和标准，将文化意识、知识、识别和尊重融入口腔卫生课程。未来的口腔卫生师应具备文化胜任力，以便为不断扩大和多样化的美国人群提供口腔护理。
