SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Intercultural Competence, Racialization, Honorary Whites

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2503
• Professor: Fiona Martin

Document Summary

Sosa 2503 lecture 16 march 7, 2019. Overview: getting started: cultural competence training, beliefs about health and health care: cultural variations, racials & ethnic health disparities, racism, racialization and health, the healthy immigrant effect , conclusion: what cultural competence training needs to address. Getting started: what is cultural competence, the ability to conduct professional work in way that is consistent with the expectations which members of distinctive cultures regard as appropriate among themselves. This is a standard part of the medical profession training. Cultural competence training is to ensure those who work in the health care profession that there is variations in which how people experience health: greg and saha (2006, beginning in 1990s, integrated into medical education, etc. Initially motivated primarily by the desire care for unacculturated immigrant populations: bridging cultural distance, current interest in cultural competence based on concerns about racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care.