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Cultural competence also involves analyzing and criticizing systems of power and privilege (Andersen & Collins, 2007) that create inequities in health care and health care delivery. Health Resources and Services Administration (Bureau of Primary Health Care): Cultural competence is a set of attitudes, skills, behaviors, and policies that enable organizations and staff to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. Health care providers and health care organizations alike should ...
1). Conventional medicine consists of allopathy practiced by medical doctors (MDs), osteopathy practiced by doctors of osteopathy (DOs), and medicine practiced by their allied health professionals, such as athletic trainers, physical therapists, psychologists, and registered nurses. The four domains are mind–body medicine, biological-based practices, manipulative and body-based practices, and energy medicine. Whole medical systems, which are comprehensive health care systems based on theory...
Mexicans have a unique culture of their own and it is important for the athletic trainer to understand the similarities and the differences of this culture from their own. Mexicans speak a variety of languages, including Spanish, English, and an indigenous Indian language (e.g., Nahuatl and Maya) (Purnell & Paulanka, 2005; Erickson D’Avanzo & Geissler, 2003; Lipson et al. This section presents the particulars of Mexican health culture in the following categories: biocultural assessment, ...
The assessment process necessarily requires the athletic trainer to enter the patient’s social, personal, and intimate spaces. During palpation, the health care provider may purposely elicit pain, and expressions may vary culturally. Other patients may express pain emotively or even see the expression of pain as a pain-relieving act.
