Healthcare Across Cultures: Understanding and Communication When It Counts Most

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Healthcare providers in Hawaiʻi treat clients from a mystifying array of origins. This workshop provides tools to deepen understanding of cultural influences on client interactions, decisions, and communication. Interdisciplinary concepts of cultural dimensions and processes will be presented, followed by an open discussion of attendee experiences and ideas.

As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to…

• Describe the dimensions of cultural variation.
• Explain how cultural conceptualization of health and well-being affects healthcare interactions and client/patient decisions.
• Describe the effects of social and cultural factors, such as collectivism and personal agency, on client comity in treatment.
• Evaluate the acculturation status and impediments of clients/patients and how these affect treatment.
• Describe avenues for intercultural explanation and apperception