Watters Amy, Bergstrom Amy, Sandefer Ryan
J Cult Divers. 2016;23(3):114-120.
This paper examines the importance and increasing need for health care practitioners to develop cultural competence in an effort to engage patients in their care to minimize the health disparities that are found in predominately ethnic minority populations. Although Meaningful Use requires data collection related to race and ethnicity, there is no evidence to support that the data is being used to engage patients in a culturally competent way. Lessons learned from the field of education regarding strategies used to develop cultural competence in the teaching profession can be applied in the health care field. This paper argues that cultural competence and patient engagement are clearly linked.
本文探讨了医疗从业者培养文化能力的重要性及与日俱增的需求，旨在促使患者参与自身护理，以尽量减少在主要为少数族裔人群中发现的健康差距。尽管《可移植医疗信息技术的合理使用法案》要求收集与种族和族裔相关的数据，但并无证据支持这些数据正被用于以具有文化能力的方式促使患者参与护理。从教育领域吸取的有关在教学专业中培养文化能力所采用策略的经验教训，可应用于医疗保健领域。本文认为，文化能力与患者参与之间显然存在关联。
