Cultural Sensitivity Can Improve Health Care, Experts Say
Summary
TLDRRoberto Dani, a martial artist and clinical psychologist with a diverse cultural background, is dedicated to integrating cultural diversity into healing and teaching practices. His work is in high demand as the healthcare industry shifts towards culturally appropriate care, which aims to respect and incorporate different cultural beliefs, languages, and practices. Experts like Susan Shaw and medical anthropologists help bridge the gap between cultures in healthcare settings, leading to improved patient care and outcomes. Dani believes that culturally competent care not only benefits patients but also has the potential to heal the healers themselves.
Takeaways
- 🌐 Roberto Dani brings a unique blend of cultures and identities into his work as a martial artist and clinical psychologist, merging Irish American, Mexican Mayan, and Totech influences.
- 🌟 Dani is often called upon to speak at various colleges and communities globally, focusing on incorporating cultural diversity into healing and teaching practices.
- 💡 The demand for culturally competent care is growing, especially in healthcare settings, as it is seen as a way to improve patient care and outcomes.
- 🌱 Sally Reel emphasizes the importance of cultural sensitivity and respect for diverse cultural beliefs, languages, and practices in healthcare to reduce health inequity.
- 📚 Culturally appropriate care aims to address the disparities in healthcare by acknowledging and understanding the cultural backgrounds of patients.
- 🔍 Susan Shaw's research at a community health center in Massachusetts highlights the challenges and importance of culturally competent care in diverse patient populations.
- 📝 Establishing policies for access to interpreters is an example of an easier aspect of cultural competency to implement compared to understanding and incorporating specific cultural traditions or beliefs.
- 🤝 Medical anthropologists like Shaw help bridge the gap between cultural understanding and medical practice by translating complex findings into practical advice for physicians.
- 🌡 The Western medical view of diseases like diabetes may conflict with patients' cultural beliefs, as seen in the Vietnamese belief about the disease being akin to catching a cold.
- 🌟 Taking the time to understand a patient's cultural values and beliefs can lead to better health outcomes and a more positive patient-physician relationship.
- 🌈 Dani believes that culturally competent care not only benefits the patient but also has the potential to heal the healer by acknowledging and embracing diversity.
Q & A
What is the cultural background of Roberto Dani?
-Roberto Dani has an Irish American father and a Mexican Indian mother, which gives him a unique blend of cultural identities.
What challenges does Roberto Dani face with his name at the airport?
-At the airport, Roberto's name on his ticket is Roberto, but his ID says Robert, which sometimes leads to confusion and questions from others about his name.
What professions has Roberto Dani pursued?
-Roberto Dani has been a martial artist and a clinical psychologist, and he has found his calling in helping others bring their diverse cultural worlds together.
Why is Roberto Dani often invited to speak at different colleges and communities?
-He is invited to speak because he teaches people how to incorporate cultural diversity and wisdom into their healing and teaching modalities, which is increasingly in demand in various settings around the world.
What is the growing demand for Roberto Dani's services attributed to?
-The growing demand for his services is due to an industrywide shift toward culturally appropriate care, especially among healthcare providers.
What does culturally appropriate care aim to achieve?
-Culturally appropriate care aims to bring sensitivity and respect for different cultural beliefs, languages, and practices into the relationship between healthcare providers and their patients.
According to Sally Reel, why is the movement toward culturally competent care important for improving patient care?
-Sally Reel states that being able to change the way people communicate and interact with each other is important for improving patient care and the quality of that care.
What is the impact of not understanding cultural differences in healthcare according to the script?
-Not understanding cultural differences can lead to greater health inequity, increasing disparity because there is a lack of cultural sensitivity and wisdom needed to manage diverse populations in any healthcare system.
What role do medical anthropologists like Susan Shaw play in healthcare?
-Medical anthropologists like Susan Shaw help bridge the gap between cultural understanding and medical practice by translating complex qualitative findings into terms that can be useful to physicians.
How does Susan Shaw's research contribute to the understanding of culturally competent care?
-Susan Shaw's research, based at a community health center serving a diverse patient population, helps to identify how culturally competent care works and the challenges in addressing cultural elements in a medical setting.
What is an example of a cultural gap that healthcare providers had to address in the script?
-An example given in the script is reconciling the Western medical view of diabetes with a Vietnamese patient's beliefs about the disease, which they perceive as similar to catching a cold.
What benefits does Roberto Dani suggest can come from culturally competent care for both the patient and the healer?
-Roberto Dani suggests that culturally competent care can lead to better health outcomes for patients and can also heal the healer by acknowledging proper ways of building diverse communities.
Outlines
🌏 Embracing Cultural Diversity in Healing Modalities
Roberto Dani, a martial artist and clinical psychologist with a diverse cultural background, has found his calling in helping others integrate different cultural perspectives into their healing and teaching practices. His unique blend of Irish American, Mexican Mayan, and Totech identities has led him to be sought after by various colleges and communities worldwide. The healthcare industry is shifting towards culturally appropriate care, as emphasized by Sally Reel from the Arizona Health Sciences Center. This approach aims to improve patient care by incorporating cultural sensitivity and respect for diverse beliefs, languages, and practices. The movement is rapidly gaining traction, especially in diverse regions like the Southwest, where understanding and accommodating cultural differences is crucial for reducing health disparities and improving overall healthcare quality.
📚 Cultural Competence in Healthcare: Bridging Gaps
The script delves into the intricacies of culturally competent care, highlighting the work of medical anthropologists like Susan Shaw. Shaw's research at a diverse community health center in Western Massachusetts underscores the importance of understanding and addressing cultural nuances in healthcare. While some cultural elements like language access are easier to manage, others such as traditions and beliefs require more in-depth knowledge. The challenge for healthcare providers is to integrate this understanding into their practice, which can be time-consuming and complex. However, the benefits are significant, as seen in the improved patient-provider relationships and health outcomes. Shaw's work exemplifies the effort to translate complex cultural findings into practical advice for physicians. The narrative also touches on the healing effect of culturally competent care on the healers themselves, suggesting that embracing diversity can be therapeutic for both patients and healthcare providers.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Cultural Diversity
💡Cultural Competence
💡Healing Modalities
💡Healthcare Providers
💡Cultural Appropriate Care
💡Health Disparities
💡Medical Anthropologists
💡Cultural Beliefs
💡Patient Care
💡Interprofessional Education
💡Cultural Wisdom
Highlights
Roberto Dani brings a unique blend of cultural identities into every room he enters, being of Irish American and Mexican Indian descent.
Dani has merged his identities to become a martial artist, clinical psychologist, and a healer integrating different cultures.
He is often called upon to speak at colleges and communities worldwide on incorporating cultural diversity into healing and teaching practices.
There is a growing demand for culturally appropriate care in the healthcare industry, as emphasized by Sally Reel from the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Culturally appropriate care aims to integrate sensitivity and respect for diverse cultural beliefs, languages, and practices in healthcare.
Susan Shaw's research at a community health center in Massachusetts explores how culturally competent care functions in a diverse patient setting.
Shaw's work indicates that some cultural elements are easier to address in healthcare settings than others, such as providing interpreter services.
Medical anthropologists like Shaw help bridge the gap between cultural understanding and medical practice by translating complex findings into actionable insights for physicians.
Cultural competence in healthcare can improve patient outcomes by addressing patients' pre-existing concerns and values.
An example of cultural misunderstanding in healthcare is the reconciliation between Western medical views and Vietnamese patients' beliefs about diabetes.
Understanding and respecting patients' cultural beliefs can lead to better health outcomes and patient satisfaction.
Dani believes that culturally competent care not only benefits the patient but also has the potential to heal the healer.
Cultural diversity is seen as an enriching factor for the human spirit and a great asset to humanity.
Healthcare providers are encouraged to acknowledge and interact with cultural differences appropriately to improve patient care.
Students in healthcare are expected to learn how to interact with cultural diversity to manage diverse populations effectively.
The Southwest, particularly Arizona, is highlighted as an area with a high level of cultural diversity, emphasizing the importance of cultural wisdom in healthcare.
Cultural competence in healthcare is part of a larger movement towards improving patient care and reducing health disparities.
Transcripts
every year better than last year when
Roberto Dani walks into a room he brings
a few different worlds with him and I
just heard this joke about you know
people from Argentina have some so my
father he was Irish American and my mama
Mexican Indian and when you get Mexican
Irish you get this you know and uh when
I go to the airport I just get down uh I
go with my ticket you know and it says
Roberto but then in my ID it says Robert
and some people are like what is it and
I say
both growing up Dany managed to merge
his identities as an Irish amican
Mexican Mayan and totech and became
among other things a martial artist and
a clinical psychologist then he found
his calling helping others bring worlds
together just as he did I get called to
go to different colleges and different
communities not only here but around the
world because they are finding ways to
incorporate the culture of the people
that they are serving into their healing
modalities or teaching modalities but
when you're a Healer you have to look at
the body and the heart mind soul Dany
teaches people how to bring cultural
diversity and wisdom into their work
there's growing demand for his Services
especially among healthc care providers
that's because of an industrywide shift
toward culturally appropriate care says
Sally reel who leads the development and
implementation of interprofessional
education programs for the Arizona
Health Sciences Center there is a
growing sense that being able to change
the way people communicate and how they
uh interact with each other becomes
important for improving patient care and
the quality of that care so it is a
movement that we are rapidly engaging in
at the Health Sciences Center culturally
appropriate or culturally competent care
aims to bring sensitivity and respect
for different cultural beliefs languages
and practices into the relationship
between Healthcare Providers and their
patients all of us come from some place
whether it be our ethnicities our racial
backgrounds our place U and we have
differences and we've known that when it
comes to these differences that not
understanding them can actually lead to
Greater Health inequity meaning that it
increases disparity because we do not
have the cultural sensitivities and
wisdom that we need to manage the
diverse populations that we would see in
any healthare system so it's really
important for the Southwest when you
consider the sheer diversity of the
populations that live in Arizona that
our students be exposed to this whole
concept of cultural wisdom we would
expect our students to have the ability
to acknowledge those differences but
more importantly to learn how to
interact with them appropriately to
improve Healthcare sometimes students
learn this by turning to other other
experts experts who study what happens
when cultures come together Susan Shaw
is one of
them the research that I do is based at
a community health center in Western
Massachusetts and this Clinic um serves
a really diverse patient population so
it includes African-Americans Latinos
low-income white Americans as well as a
diverse range of um immigrant groups
including um Vietnamese immigrants and
immigrants from the former Soviet Union
I think that patients will have
experienced sha has spent years studying
this one particularly diverse Clinic to
learn how culturally competent care
Works she says some elements of culture
are easier to address than others a
clinic can establish policies that
ensure patients have access to an
interpreter if they need one for example
but it's harder to bring knowledge about
Traditions or beliefs into a medical
setting okay so it's all in really white
that makes sense it's hard to ask a
physician who always pressed for time in
settings like the clinic where my
research is based you know to take the
time to ask those detailed kinds of
questions to say you know tell me how
you think about your hypertension or um
tell me about your diet and you know
what do you normally have for breakfast
or what do you normally have for lunch
and then to work with that sort of
Baseline of information to tailor the
patients treatments medical
anthropologists like Shaw help bridge
the gap work work of translation for
medical anthropologists is to take our
detailed nuanced complex contradictory
qualitative findings and put them in
terms that can be useful to Physicians
you know because a lot of Physicians
that I speak with are very frustrated by
the kinds of gaps in understanding that
they encounter with their
patients in the clinic Shaw studies
healthc care providers run into these
gaps again and again in one example they
had to reconcile the Western Medical
view of diabetes with a Vietnamese
patients beliefs about the disease it's
kind of akin to the experience of um
catching a cold so for example um you
know when I grew up I was always told
like don't go outside without a hat on
because you'll catch a cold by the cold
air getting into your hair or whatever
some of the Vietnamese participants that
we talked to talked about their
experience of diabetes was related to
this wind which kind of blew away their
sort of protective outer
layer I guess so for a Vietnamese
patient who's experiencing diabetes it's
kind of all of a piece with a broader
set of ideas about you know the
Integrity of the human body and what can
violate that integrity and in some cases
a medication is seen as a similar kind
of threat as opposed to a remedy when
Healthcare Providers take the time to
understand the world of values and
beliefs their patients bring with them
Shaw says the benefits are real even if
they're not always is easy to measure in
the encounters that we um heard about
from patients the providers who the
patients felt happiest about receiving
um care from were those that did
indicate that they had some
understanding of people's sort of
pre-existing concerns and that kind of
positive orientation on the part of a
patient who feels Hur and understood by
their physician I think can only lead to
Better Health outcomes
Mountain for Dany the benefits of
culturally competent care reach beyond
the patient he says they can heal the
Healer
too so we have a chance to heal part of
our trauma by re acknowledging proper
ways of building communities with
diversity and it's better to have this
multiple voices a multiple ways of being
that enrich the human spirit
we know this and diversity has proven
itself over and over again one of the
greatest assets of
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