Hugh Lytle is founder and CEO, Equality Health, a Value Based Care leader helping independent primary care practices make the shift to VBC. While there is no single way to define “cultural competence, ...

Culturally competent care is healthcare that considers a person’s cultural and faith-based beliefs. It can help ensure that the care being given is compassionate and effective. Culture refers to the ...

Culture refers to the ideas, customs, and behaviors of a group of people or a society (1). It influences just about everything you do — the way you speak, the foods you eat, what you consider to be ...

An integrated pattern of learned beliefs, values and behaviors that can be shared among groups Elements of cultural competency: personal identification, language, thoughts, communications, actions, ...

Cultural competence has become a major issue in nursing practice, given the current and projected US demographics as well as the long-standing health disparities in people of diverse racial, ethnic, ...

What is cultural competency, and how does it fit in with healthcare? A recent survey among physicians in the United States shows that cultural competency is a key issue both for healthcare ...

The ability of researchers and research staff to provide high quality research that takes into account the culture and diversity of a population when developing research ideas, conducting research, ...

As the poet, activist, and librarian Audre Lorde teaches us: “it is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” But how exactly do ...

Educators are very familiar with “soft skills,” or those that are peripheral to the core curriculum—nice additions if you have the time. Associating “soft” with a skill often means it is often ...

Houston teacher Anthony DeLeon is giving some prospective educators a hard-knocks lesson on life in an urban classroom. When he was an ‘06 Teach For America corps member in Miami’s Little Haiti ...

Understanding cultural differences is no longer just a concern for global corporations; it matters for small businesses and startups, too. When a company is culturally competent, it’s better equipped ...