RADT 1001 Chapter 10
What do members of the U.S Mainstream Culture are said to value and identify with what?
-Activity and hard work -Personal achievement and success -Individualism -Efficiency and Practicality -Affluence, consumerism, and material comfort -Competition -Openness, directness, and being well informed.
What are the Characteristics of Diversity?
-Age -Disability -Education -Ethnicity -Family status -First Language -Gender -Geographic Location -Lifestyle -Organizational Level -Physical Characteristics -Political Affiliation -Religious Preference -Sexual Orientation -Work Style or Ethic
The Nineteenth Century Civil Rights Acts provide an outline of the damages available to people receiving actions under what:
-Civil Rights Act of 1964 -Title VII -The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 -Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Areas of Human Cultural Diversity that health care providers need to understand in order to provide quality and effective care for all patients:
-Communication -Space -Time -Environmental Control -Biologic Variations -Social Organizations
What are the 4 essential Core Values of Human Rights that are important when thinking about people with disabilities?
-Dignity -Autonomy -Equality -Solidarity
What are the New Female Roles?
-Executives -Physicians -Lawyers -Politicians
How are many health care institutions striving to overcome the linguistic barriers?
-Hiring additional bilingual and bicultural staff -Providing Medical interpreters -Providing translators -Encouraging employees to become bilingual or multilingual -Providing medial documents in different languages
Empathetic practices include:
-Marking quick powerful connections with the patient (communication) -Gathering culturally relevant information (assessment and communication) -Working with patients to form strategies that meet their individual needs, the needs of the provider, and the needs of the medical facility or practice (Negotiating)
What positive steps have Professional Health Care Providers taken in addressing diversity issues within their disciplines?
-Minority scholarships -Mentoring programs -Other initiatives
Applying Empathetic Practices will in turn;
-Promote better health care outcomes overall -Increase patient satisfaction -Decrease health care costs -Decrease provider liability
What were the traditional female roles?
-Teaching -Clerical positons -Nursing
List the elements that may contribute for an agency or institution to become culturally competent
-Valuing diversity -Possessing the capacity of cultural self-assessment -Having a consciousness of the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction -Institutionalizing cultural knowledge -Developing adaptations of service
What Societal Biases have opposed national policies geared toward baby boomer research and development?
-Valuing youth over age -Viewing of aging as something undesirable or bad -Placing little value on contributions of senior citizens -Favoring reactive instead of proactive approaches to policy development and implementation -Considering all senior citizens to be mentally inferior
Approximately what percentage of the world's population has some type of disability?
10%
Individuals that are 45 years and older are comprised of more than ____ of the total population.
23.6%
Over the next 3 decades, which of the following age groups is expected to be the fastest-growing segment of the population?
85+
Some businesses and organizations have taken the initiative in fostering what type of environment?
A positive Diverse environment
Define Discrimination.
Actions involved in the unequal or prejudicial treatment of people because they belong to a certain category, group, or race.
Some cultures and individuals assign different values base on ______.
Age
What Act was passed with the intent of preventing employers from exhibiting discrimination in hiring, promotion, job assignment, compensation,and termination based solely on age?
Age Discrimination in Employment
Government statutes to protect people from discrimination are based on which of the following? -ethnicity or race -disability -age
All of the above
Human Diversity consists of characteristics associated with: -Age -ethnicity -gender -lifestyle -All of the above
All of the above
Define Cultures.
All of the socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thoughts by particular classes, communities, or populations
What is Cultural Diversity?
Also known as human diversity, this term addresses the variety of human societies and cultures and examines their similarities and differences.
Sexual orientation regards an individual's designation as any of the following EXCEPT -asexuality -bisexuality -heterosexuality -homosexuality
Asexuality
In the past, the interaction of culturally different individuals with mainstream culture has been that of either ________ or ________.
Assimilation or Biculturalism
Which generation is considered to be healthy and well educated and are expected to stay in the workforce longer?
Baby Boom Generation
Individuals that are born between 1946 and 1964 are part of what generation?
Baby Boomers
Everyone has at least on personal ______ which can be based on reason or on perceptions of human characteristics.
Bias
The key to providing quality patient care to such a diverse population, by a diverse health care work force, is through organized what?
Cultural Diversity Initiatives
Humans are divided into different _______.
Cultures
Define Gender.
Describes the biologic sexual identity of an individual
Who initiated an analysis of human sexually?
Dr Alfred Kinsey
Which one of the following does not relate to a person's ethnicity? -Dress -language -religion -race
Dress
What is the most important skill needed in providing health care today.
Empathy
As long as ________ and _______ are allowed to exist in society, discrimination, prejudice, and oppression will continue to be expressed.
Ethnocentrism and Racism
To maintain a society that is mutually inclusive, certain views and beliefs such as ________ and ______ must be eliminated.
Ethnocentrism and Racism
What is Diversity?
Fact or quality of being diverse, different (all ways in which human beings are both similar and different)
True or False, everyone has the same mental and physical ability?
False
Individuals that are born between 1961 and 1981 are part of what generation?
Generation X
Individuals born between 1981 and 1995 are generally referred to as
Generation Y
Individuals that are born between 1981 and 1999 are part of what generation?
Generation Y
Individuals that are born between 2000 to present day are part of what generation?
Generation Z
Do all members of a specific cultural group share the same values or show absolute compliance with his or her defining culture?
HELL NO MF!!!
What is Homophobia?
Homophobia is the fear of homosexuality, accompanied by hostility toward individuals who are or are perceived to be homosexual, gay lesbian or bisexual.
People who do not like homosexuals and bisexuals are considered what?
Homophobic
What is the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) used to determine?
If the person has normal, superior, or interior intellectual capability.
Bias play a major role in what?
In how individuals perceive others
One of the major concerns of linguistic differences is ______.
Informed Consent
What is Gender Role Stereotyping?
Is the expectation of how people should behave solely based on whether they are male or female.
What does the Nineteenth Century Civil Rights act do?
It ensures all people have equal rights under law
What is Cultural Competency?
It is described as processing a set of attitudes, behaviors and polices that come together in a system or among individuals that enable effective interactions in a cross-cultural framework.
What is Census Data?
It provides statistics on the ethnic and racial make-up of the population.
The impact of some Biases can be lessened thorough what?
Knowledge
Ethnic and racial cultural differences are often accompanied by what?
Linguistic Differences
What is the meaning of the "Glass Ceiling" that women in the work place?
Meaning that they are restricted form being promoted into high-levelpositions because of their gender.
Evidence of what is in cities, business, communities, educational institutions, and health care?
Multiculturalism
Which of the following isn not one of the ways the culturally different individuals have interacted with the U. S. majority culture in the past? -assimilation -biculturalism -multiculturalism
Multiculturalism
What Acts lessened the impact of discrimination based on ethnicity and race?
Nineteenth Century Civil Rights Acts
Do Cultures often change?
No, conditions or environments changes but cultures often remain the same.
What has happened due to the theory of Globalization?
People have been crossing borders into other countries to work, go to school, receive medical care, visit and just simply live.
Describe Bisexual Individuals.
People who are mentally, physically, and sexually attracted to both sexes.
Describe Heterosexual Individuals
People who are mentally, physically, and sexually attracted to the opposite sex.
Describe Homosexual, Lesbian, or Gay Individuals.
People who are mentally, physically, and sexually attracted to the same sex.
What term may also be used to denote ethnicity?
Race
What characteristics of individuals originally were identified with specific areas of the world?
Racial & Ethnic
Ethnicity relates to a person's distinctive what?
Racial, National , Religious, Linguistic, or Cultural Heritage
What is the area of diversity that has developed issues regarding discrimination that includes heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality?
Sexual orientation
What are Cultural Values?
Socially shared ideas about what is good, moral and right and what is bad, immoral, and wrong.
National policies geared toward the baby boomer research and development have encountered Heavy opposition because of many what?
Societal Bias
What Act was written to support mentally and physically disable people's rights?
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Which of the following is considered the most profound step that the United States has ever undertaken to prevent discrimination toward people with a disability? -The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 -The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 -The Human Rights Declaration of 1999
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Why is the Baby Boomer Generation expected to stay in the workforce longer?
The Baby Boomer Generation is expected to live longer.
What is Biculturalism?
The ability of individuals to be able to negotiate competently two or more cultures; the mainstream culture and the individual's own culture.
What does the Americans Disabilities Act do?
The act provides protection and directs institutions to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities.
What is Racism?
The belief that one race or culture is superior to others and the use of this belief to discriminate against races that believer considers to be inferior.
Why is the Census useful?
The census can project that the current majority ethnic group will lose it's designation within the current century, because of the combined growth among the now minority groups and immigrants.
One of the best ways of obtaining cultural relevant information is by doing what?
emphasizing empathy through intense listening and curiosity.
Of the following, which one is not considered an element that may contribute to the ability of an organization to become culturally competent? -valuing diversity -institutionalizing cultural knowledge -possessing the capacity for cultural self-assessment -ignoring cultural norms and values -developing of adaptations for the delivery of services that reflect an understanding of a multicultural environment
ignoring cultural norms and values
Define Cultural Competency.
possessing a set of attitudes, congruent behaviors, and policies that come together in an agency, system, or among professionals that enable effective interactions in a cross-cultural or multicultural environment.
Human Diversity is
the differences inherent among people
What will happen due to the 75 million babies born during the baby boomer generation?
The older adult population ages 85+ will increase substantially over the next 3 decades
What is Assimilation?
The process by which people of a diverse culture give up their original cultural language and identify with and try to merge into another culture.
What is Ethnocentrism?
The tendency of some individuals to view norms and values of their own culture as the only acceptable ones and to use them as the standard by which all other cultures are measured.
What has happened to nations, societies and businesses due to Globalization?
They have become increasingly cross-cultural or multicultural.
