Utilizing at least two scholarly sources and a biblical integration, reply to the below thread:Cultural Competence and Health DisparitiesCOLLAPSEEmerging in the 1980s, ‘cultural competence’ evolved from addressing the needs of populations deemed different from the ‘mainstream’ culture to a byword for striving for social justice by the late 2000s (Maham & Yayoi, 2020). In the drive towards competency-based medical education, cultural education and training has been taken for a ride: reduced to fit knowledge, skills, and attitude frameworks, without due consideration of the consequences of assigning ‘competence’ to a concept internally identified and individually experienced through a socio-political lens (Maham & Yayoi, 2020). Culture influences the experience, expression, course and outcome of mental health problems, help-seeking and the response to health promotion, prevention, or treatment interventions (Kirmayer, 2012). For example, the meaning of poverty is different in a culture or community where social status and esteem are not centered on monetary or material wealth (Kirmayer, 2012). The benefits of implementing programs to address cultural competence within the healthcare organization is to ensure that the leadership teams understand the importance of eliminating disparities, improving awareness, and delivering quality patient services. “For God shows no partiality,” (Romans 2: 11). According to our textbook, there were several objectives created to eliminate disparities. These objectives include eliminating health disparities, addressing social determinants of health, improving access to health services, improving the dissemination of health information, strengthening public health services, reducing, or eliminating diseases, and other new objectives such as addressing the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals (Buchbinder, et. al., 2019, p. 358). In 2010, the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) transitioned to the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). Since this time, career development programs for those serving underrepresented health areas have been established, new research programs funded, a minority health promotion day sponsored, and numerous awareness campaigns launched by this government agency (Buchbinder, et. al., 2019, p. 358).References:Buchbinder, S. B., Shanks, N. H., & Kite, B. J. (2019). Introduction to Health Care Management (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. Kirmayer, L. J. (2012). Rethinking cultural competence. Transcultural Psychiatry, 49(2), 149-164. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461512444673 Stanyon, M., Shikama, Y., & Otani, K. (2021). When I say … cultural competence. Medical Education, 55(5), 556-557. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14439 The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
