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Chapter 17 Potter
Cultural Diversity
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ________________ have become the largest minority group in the U.S. | Hispanics |
| ________________ have the highest growth rate in the U.S. | Asians |
| ________________ are also known as diverse cultures, subcultures, or minority cultures. | variant cultural patterns |
| In the U.S., the dominant culture is ________________ with origins from Western Europe. | Anglo-American |
| ________________ represent various ethnic, religious, and other groups with distinct characteristics from the dominant culture. | subcultures |
| ________________ refers to a shared identity related to social and cultural heritage such as values, language, geographical space, and racial characteristics. | ethnicity |
| Members of an ethnic group feel a common sense of ________________. | identity |
| The term ________________ means the common biological characteristics shared by a group of people such as skin color. | race |
| ________________ are unequal burdens of disease morbidity and mortality rates experienced by racial and ethnic groups. | health disparities |
| Several studies have established the link between ________________ and an individual's socioeconomic status, environment, ethnicity, and/or gender. | health |
| Racial and ethnic minorities experience a lower quality of ________________ and are less likely to receive even routine medical procedures than white Americans. | health services |
| Health provider bias, stereotyping, prejudice, clinical uncertainty, and poor provider-patient communication contribute to racial and ethnic ________________. | health disparities |
| Although persons belonging to ethnic minority groups have increased health risks, most health care interventions and health care concepts have targeted ________________. | middle-class, white populations |
| Health care practitioners often misinterpret the effect a person's culture has on health and are ill-prepared educationally and clinically to provide safe and effective care for ________________. | culturally diverse populations |
| ________________ has a significant influence on the patient and health care practitioners. | culture |
| Because culture is a ________________ of meanings that provides the context for valuing, evaluating, and categorizing life experiences, members of a cultural group are predisposed to ethnocentrism. | cognitive system |
| The tendency to hold one's own way of life as superior to others. | ethnocentrism |
| Composed of beliefs and attitudes associating negative permanent characteristics to people who are perceived to be different from oneself. | biases and prejudices |
| When a person acts with prejudice,________________ occurs. | discrimination |
| Health care practitioners who are culturally ignorant or culturally blind about differences generally resort to ________________ and use their own values and customs as the absolute guide in dealing with patients and interpreting their behaviors. | cultural imposition |
| A tendency to fit every person into a particular pattern without further assessment. | stereotype |
| The "integrated patterns of human behavior that include the language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values an institutions of racial, ethnic, religious or social groups." | culture |
| ________________ is socially transmitted across generations and guides a particular group's thoughts, decisions, and actions. | culture |
| ________________ is the personal, interpersonal, and cultural reactions to disease. | illness |
| ________________ is a malfunctioning or maladaptation of biological or psychological processes. | disease |
| A ________________ is a cognitive stance or perspective about phenomena characteristic of a particular cultural group. | worldview |
| insider or native perspective | emic worldview |
| outsider's perspective | etic worldview |
| A process in which the health care professional continually strives to achieve the ability and availability to work effectively with individuals, families, and communities. | cultural competence |
| Gaining in-depth awareness of one's own background, stereotypes, biases, prejudices, and assumptions about other people. | cultural awareness |
| Obtaining knowledge of other cultures; gaining sensitivity to, respect for, and appreciation of differences. | cultural knowledge |
| Developing cultural skills such as communication, cultural assessment, and culturally competent care. | cultural skills |
| Engaging in cross-cultural interactions, refining intercultural communication skills, gaining in-depth understanding of others and avoiding stereotypes, and cultural conflict management. | cultural encounters |
| ________________ results when an individual gives up his or her ethnic identity in favor of the dominant culture. | assimilation |
| Someone who assimilates to another culture, but yet still practices and keeps their own. | pluralist |
| Someone who does not assimilate to another culture who is living within the boundaries of that culture. | separatist |
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