Healthcare Disparities in Diabetes Care

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Culturally Competent Diabetes Care • To provide effective health care • Physicians have to function within the cultural beliefs, bh behaviors and needs of their patients. t
Culturally Competent Diabetes Care • Culturally competent care requires a commitment from doctors and other caregivers to understand and be responsive to the different attitudes, values, verbal cues, and body language that people look for in a doctor’s office by virtue of their heritage. • Get to know your patients on an individual level.
Page 1 and 2: Dr. Aldith Lewis Internal Medicine
Page 3 and 4: Culturally Competent Care Definitio
Page 5: Culturally Competent Diabetes Care
Page 9 and 10: The Result • Increase costs for i
Page 11 and 12: How Do We Bridge the Gap?
Page 13 and 14: How Do We Bridge The Gap? • Accor
Page 15 and 16: How Do We Bridge the Gap? • Peek
Page 17 and 18: Key Aspects of Different Ethnic Gro
Page 19 and 20: Social Structure • Nuclear family
Page 21 and 22: Religion • Strong religious affil
Page 23 and 24: Medical Care • Older African Amer
Page 25 and 26: American Indians Social Structure F
Page 27 and 28: Diet • Fish is the principal food
Page 29 and 30: Religion • Indians nurture relati
Page 31 and 32: Medical Care • Also prevalent are
Page 33 and 34: Medical Care • Sickness viewed as
Page 35 and 36: Death and Dying • Immediate and e
Page 37 and 38: Hispanics/Latinos • Hispanics/Lat
Page 39 and 40: Social Structure • Friendliness a
Page 41 and 42: Diet • In US, they replace tradit
Page 43 and 44: Medical Care • Diabetes is twice
Page 45 and 46: Tips • Be gracious. • Acknowled
Page 47 and 48: Tips • Acknowledge male family me
Page 49 and 50: TIPS • Ask the patient if they us
Page 51 and 52: Summary • Establishing a trusting
Page 53 and 54: References • White, Richard M.D.,

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