The Social Sciences and Healthcare Humanities
1. Cultural Competency
The University definition of cultural competency includes the ability to: “effectively and comfortably communicate across cultures with patients of differing backgrounds, taking into account aspects of trust in order to adopt mutually acceptable objectives and measures.” Dancing Skeletons describes how anthropologists seek knowledge of other cultures and how cross-cultural understanding is a foundation for health interventions at both interpersonal and public health/public policy levels. Write an essay that discusses how this anthropological study illuminates barriers to cross-cultural understanding and contributes to cultural competency in healthcare.
Dancing Skeleton Book must be used as well as the other links and the documents provided.
Quotes and evidences have to be used in order to support the paper.
http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/culture_1.htm
http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/choudhury/culture.html
http://www.carla.umn.edu/culture/definitions.html
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/gjay/www/CommonCulture.pdf