Learning Objectives
In this section, the student will:
- Identify how culturally specific values and perspectives affect health care decisions
- Explain the difference between the collectivist and individualist cultural perspectives of illness and health care
- Analyze your own cultural bias as it relates to health care and social services
- Describe cultural barriers to care
- Unconscious (Implicit) Bias and Health Disparities: Where Do We Go from Here?; from National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine