intercultural barriers to ineffective healthcare
Cultural misunderstandings that lead to inadequate treatment
What is Medical miscommunication?
This has a large influence on medicine within communities.
What is culture?
Have the power to prescribe drugs and medications and can recommend certain treatments.
What are Physicians?
This movement emerged to help people feel good about their bodies more generally.
What is the Body Positivity movement?
This can influence whether people trust medical professionals.
What are regional identities?
Words that make it difficult for patients to understand medical professionals.
What is medical jargon?
This can be helpful during the healing process of many illnesses.
What is religion/spirituality?
Doctors hold power over their patients by determining what type of "blank" that the patient receives.
What is treatment?
This medical practice involves ending the life of a terminally ill patient.
What is euthanasia?
This can lead many people to obtain medical information from their own community.
What is mistrust?
This makes the chance of misdiagnosis and misunderstanding extremely likely between patients and medical professionals.
What are language barriers?
People around the world have a wide range of these.
What are spiritual beliefs?
Patients may not have access to these without a written prescription from a physician.
What are drugs?
Businesses that ration out healthcare and provide health insurance to companies.
What are Health maintenance organizations? (HMO's)
This reflects a physician's decision to provide misinformation to their patient when the physician believes it is in the best interest of the patient.
What is strict paternalism?
Understanding this can help to minimize conflict between staff and families.
What are cultural differences?
Doctors should view these religious figures as part of an integrated health care team.
What are members of clergy?
This refers to the practice of telling patients only what they want to hear or know.
What is contractual honesty?
Medical approaches such as traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, naturopathy.
What are complementary and integrative medicine?
These employ religious leaders, social workers and health care professionals to help make decisions about ethics.
What are Ethics committees?
Blank is increasingly relevant in healthcare for a number of reasons.
What is intercultural communication?
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Doctors are encouraged to take courses in this field of study to better understand the importance and complexity of religious beliefs.
What are religious history classes?
This occurs when a Doctor choses to communicate only part of a patient's diagnosis.
What is benevolent deception?
This is the dominant model of medicine in the U.S.A and most western nations.
What is Biomedical science?
This refers to evaluating other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.
What is ethnocentrism?