To assist health sciences students exploring the concept of cultural competence and the social determinants of health.
Students have been asked to pick a culture to center their project around. They will explain important points about the culture and what it looks like when that culture intersects with our Canadian healthcare system. Students will learn how to interact with different cultures, become more culturally aware, and understand that other cultures have different values, ideas of medicine and decision making processes. The article(s) they are expected to find will focus on how an individual’s healthcare can be affected by their culture and students will be expected to discuss such issues.
Effective Communication for Health ProfessionalsAcculturation: The product of cultural learning that occurs due to contact between the members of two or more culturally distinct groups.
Culture: a set of acceptable behaviours, beliefs, and material traits of a radical, religious, or social group
Disparity: Racial or ethnic differences in the quality of health care that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of intervention
Ethnicity: Groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.
Minority Group: A part of a population differing from others in some characteristics and often subjected to differential treatment.
Race: A human population considered distinct based on physical characteristics.
