Essay On Cultural Competence

The article that I chose is Improving Cultural Competence to Reduce Health Disparities for priority Populations. This topic is relevant to social work because it is talking about cultural competence in the health care system and the one major skill that social workers need is cultural competency. This article is also relevant to social work because it talks about the importance of cultural competence in reducing disparities through culturally sensitive and unbiased quality care and since the social work field is all about treating everyone equally and fairly, this article falls right under its relevance. It continues to talk about programs to improve the knowledge of providers on cultural competency and general approaches that have been utilized in creating educational interventions to address cultural competence. This is great because social workers are never done learning, it is always important to train social worker on how to be culturally competent, specially because the populations being served are very diverse therefore, there should always be a way to train service providers on how to have cultural awareness.

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It is important to put all these into consideration in the health care system as these populations are the most served. For example, people with disability may face multiple forms of barriers such as transportation services to hospital appointments, physical accessibility in the rooms, mobility services and many more. When working with those with language barrier, it is important to make sure that the individual’s communication need is been met by providing a language service to break the language barrier so the patient can really understand what is been