The challenge of culturally competent health care: applications for asthma

Heart & Lung : the Journal of Critical Care
M George

Abstract

To better serve the increasingly diverse ethnic and racial communities in the United States, health care professionals must develop a knowledge base of cultural health practices. In asthma, a common disease, ethnic minority populations experience poorer outcomes when compared with whites. It is, therefore, imperative that providers have an improved understanding of how patients make decisions concerning their health. Cultural health practices, in concert with conventional treatments, often form a comprehensive asthma management strategy for the patient. The potential implication of alternative explanations for disease, as well as the role of diet and botanical supplements, is explored in this article in an effort to increase providers' sensitivity to nonbiomedical models of disease causality. This sensitivity is the first step in developing cultural competency.

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