Attached.Running Head: HEALTH DISPARITIES AND CULTURAL COMPETENCEHealth Disparities and Cultural CompetenceStudent’s NameInstructorInstitutionDate1HEALTH DISPARITIES AND CULTURAL COMPETENCE21. Explain in your own words what health disparities and cultural competence mean.Health disparities can be defined as a higher burden of mortality, disability, injury, orillness experienced by one community relative to another. Disparities happen across numeroussettings, including sexual orientation. race, or socioeconomic status (Barr, 2014). Culturalcompetence allows individuals to interact with, communicate with, and effectively understandgroups from different cultures. For healthcare professionals, cultural competence represents theorganizations and providers’ ability to provide services in healthcare that fulfill the patients’cultural, linguistic, and social needs. To be considered as culturally competent, a healthcaresystem should have the ability to improve the quality of care and wellbeing outcomes(Betancourt et. al, 2016). Such a system can help to eliminate health disparities caused by raceand ethnicity.2. Minority Group – HispanicsThe national government defines Latinos or Hispanics as individuals of Central or SouthAmerican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican, or other Spanish origin or culture regardless of race(Velasco-Mondragon, 2016).i.The major health issues faced by the Hispanic community include obesity, diabetes,hypertension, alcoholism and substance abuse, and tuberculosis.ii.The major leading causes of death or injury include heart disease, cancer, accidents(unintentional injuries), homicide, stroke, HIV, and diabetes (Velasco-Mondragon, 2016).iii.Health disparities among this minority group are impacted by societal, social, behavioral,and sociodemographic factors such as cultural and language barriers, limited access toHEALTH DISPARITIES AND CULTURAL COMPETENCEhealth services, inequities in education, and structural discrimination (VelascoMondragon, 2016). For example, Hispanics with less education are bound to exposethemselves to various health risks such as substance abuse, obesity, and unintentionalinjury.iv.To prevent or improve the significant health issues faced by the Hispanic community,secondary prevention strategies will need to be implemented within the community. Forexample, routine screening for forms of cancer, type 2 diabetes, congenital heartconditions, and tuberculosis should fall inside the role of the community servicesenvironment.3HEALTH DISPARITIES AND CULTURAL COMPETENCEReferenceBarr, D. A. (2014). Health…
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