Question & Answer: The impact of cultural diversity on healthcare delivery, include health…..

Cultural diversity can be understood as people with diverse culture and nature working in a place.It has both its positive and negative effects to certain extent.In healthcare sector as there in an increase in patient population there is also a need for diverse people workforce.Through excellent communication and understanding people work efficiency can be improved to a lot diverse nature can be adopted to.Health disparities are opportunities given to socially disadvantaged people to maintain their health at optimal cost.This can be to varoius reasons such as race gender,physical conditions,income disability etc.

Every healthcare provider is pushed to the verge of cultural diversity that they are in the need to provide culturally competent services.Managers dealing with this issue should understand various theories or practicalities to avoid unnecessary trouble in workplace.

1.The first problem people have in working in a culturally competent environment is the language problem they have to face.So initially they have to be trained in a common language so that they understand the basics and communicative words in a language.

2.Each individual will have innate talents.Their talents should be tapped and encouraged so as to improve their competence.

3.Through this cultural diversity cultural differences among people can be changed.When work is allotted in each department it should be taken care that different cultural people should be allocated.

4.Creativity and innovative is found more among such people.That should be tapped