1. Cultural DiversityIn Health Care

3. Religion

4. Ethnicity (Race)

5. National Origin (Language)

7. Educational Status

8. Mobility (including handicaps)

10. Cultural Diversity and Health Care Cultural Sensitivity The ability to be open to learning about and accepting of different cultural groups. Multiculturalism The recognition and acknowledgement that society is pluralistic. In addition to the dominant cultural, there exists many other cultures based around ethnicity, sexual orientation, geography, religion, gender, and class.

12. A health care provider is culturally competent when he/she is able to deliver culturally appropriate and specifically tailored care to patients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors.

15. Grows with Knowledge

16. Enhanced with Specific Skills

18. How can I learn about them?

20. Listen

21. Account for language issues

23. Avoidance of certain foods, people or places

24. Customary rituals or people used to treat the illness

25. Will the patient take medicine even when he/she doesn't feel sick?

26. Is the patient taking other medicines or anything else to help him feel well?

27. Who in the family makes decisions about health care?

29. Consider literacy level

30. Use visual aids and demonstrate procedures

31. Check understanding

33. Touching

34. Personal space

36. Wealth or social status

37. Presence of a disability

39. Certain treatments, blood products

40. Prayer, medication and worship

42. Cultural Diversity and Health Care It is because we are different that each of us is special.