The Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 1401 E 8th Street, Weslaco, TX 78596, USA; The Department of Dermatology, The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
The Department of Dermatology, Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group, 401 Old San Francisco Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA; The Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
Dermatol Clin. 2023 Apr;41(2):279-283. doi: 10.1016/j.det.2022.10.004. Epub 2023 Feb 1.
The increasing diversification of the United States has led to more racially and ethnically discordant visits between health care providers and patients; this is especially true in dermatology due to the lack of diversity in the field. Diversifying the health care workforce has been shown to reduce health care disparities and is an ongoing goal of dermatology. Improving cultural competence and humility among physicians is an important part of addressing health care inequities. This article reviews cultural competence, cultural humility, and practices dermatologists can incorporate to address this challenge.
美国的多元化程度不断提高,导致医疗服务提供者和患者之间的种族和民族关系更加紧张;由于皮肤科领域缺乏多样性,这种情况尤其如此。增加医疗保健人员的多样性已被证明可以减少医疗保健差距,这也是皮肤科的一个持续目标。提高医生的文化能力和谦逊是解决医疗保健不平等问题的重要组成部分。本文回顾了文化能力、文化谦逊以及皮肤科医生可以采用的解决这一挑战的实践。