Fileccia Joyceann
UMDNJ School of Nursing, Newark, NJ, USA.
Creat Nurs. 2011;17(4):174-9. doi: 10.1891/1078-4535.17.4.174.
Of the more than 36 million American adults who have some degree of hearing loss (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2008), 500,000 are acculturated into the culturally Deaf community who share behavioral norms, values, customs, educational institutions, and organizations. This article discusses the Deaf community, their culturally based health care needs, and health care providers' (HCPs) lack of understanding and recognition of Deafness as a distinct culture, which individually or cumulatively result in barriers to culturally sensitive care that can lead to disparities in care. It suggests transcultural methods HCPs can use to narrow the cultural divide.
在超过3600万患有某种程度听力损失的美国成年人中（疾病控制与预防中心[CDC]，2008年），有50万融入了聋人文化社区，他们共享行为规范、价值观、习俗、教育机构和组织。本文讨论了聋人社区、他们基于文化的医疗保健需求，以及医疗保健提供者（HCPs）对聋人作为一种独特文化缺乏理解和认识的情况，这些情况单独或累积起来会造成文化敏感护理的障碍，进而导致护理差异。文章提出了HCPs可用于缩小文化差距的跨文化方法。
