Culturally Competent Care

Preferred Label : Culturally Competent Care;

MeSH definition : Health care services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients. The provider and the patient each bring their individual learned patterns of language and culture to the health care experience which must be transcended to achieve equal access and quality health care.;

MeSH synonym : Cultural Care; Care, Cultural; Culturally Congruent Care; Care, Culturally Congruent; Cross-Cultural Care; Care, Cross-Cultural; Cross Cultural Care; Culturally Competent Health Care;

CISMeF synonym : Care, Culturally Competent;

MeSH hyponym : Care, Culturally Sensitive; Culturally Sensitive Cares;

MeSH annotation : coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH;

Details

Origin ID

D065246;

UMLS CUI

C3850087;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethnology [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- cultural competency [Q-code]
Record concept(s)
- Culturally Competent Care [MeSH concept]
- Culturally Sensitive Care [MeSH concept]
See also
- clinical competence [MeSH Descriptor]
- cultural competency [MeSH Descriptor]
- transcultural nursing [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- cultural competency [Q-code]

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