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Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Patient Care Management > Delivery of Health Care > Culturally Competent Care
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Delivery of Health Care > Culturally Competent Care

Preferred term

Culturally Competent Care  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Care, Cross-Cultural
  • Care, Cultural
  • Care, Culturally Congruent
  • Cross Cultural Care
  • Cross-Cultural Care
  • Cultural Care
  • Culturally Competent Health Care
  • Culturally Congruent Care

Note

  • coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Scope note

  • Health care services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients. The provider and the patient each bring their individual learned patterns of language and culture to the health care experience which must be transcended to achieve equal access and quality health care.

History note

  • 2015

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D065246

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