 Direct engagement with communities and interprofessional learning to factor culture into end-of-life health care deliveryN.A. Boucher American Journal of Public Health, 2016, vol. 106, issue 6, 996-1001 Abstract: Aging patients with advanced or terminal illnesses or at the end of their lives become highly vulnerable when their cultural needs - in terms of ethnic habits, religious beliefs, and language - are unmet. Cultural diversity should be taken into account during palliative care delivery (i.e., noncurative, supportive care during advanced illness or at the end of life). Providers and systems deliver disparate palliative care to diverse patients. I present 2 strategies to improve how culturally diverse populations are served during advanced illness: (1) health service provider assessment of local populations to understand service populations' cultural needs and guide services and policy; and (2) interprofessional education to improve multicultural understanding among the health care workforce. Keywords: aging; cultural anthropology; doctor patient relation; education; habit; health care delivery; human; human experiment; language; learning; palliative therapy; religion; cultural competence; demography; education; ethnic group; procedures; terminal care, Cultural Competency; Ethnic Groups; Humans; Palliative Care; Religion; Residence Characteristics; Terminal Care (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2016.303073_1 Access Statistics for this article American Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Alfredo Morabia More articles in American Journal of Public Health from American Public Health Association |
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