Cultural Context in Health Sciences, Pregnancy, Nutrition, and Risk Behaviors

Patient Centered Care
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Introduction
Over the years, much of the health care services have been controlled by the key players including the health care facilities and the insurance companies. As such, most of the patients have found themselves in a tight spot as they try keeping up and at the same time getting the best health care services that they can afford. However, the platform has changed with advocacy of health care services that are centered towards the patients to enhance their satisfaction.
Definitions
Patient Centered Care relates to the aspects of providing health care services with reference to the individual patients and their preferences (Epstein & Street, 2011). This means that the health care provision mechanisms and policies are geared towards making sure that the medical teams respond to the patients/family values and needs, whenever they are making any decisions and at the same time being respectful to the patient and family with reference to their decision and dignity as a fellow human being.
Cultural competence, according to the U.S. Department of health and human services office of minority health; it is a set behaviors that are congruent, policies and attitudes that together within any system, profession or agency ensures that every other person with any given field can work effectively within any cross cultural setting (Minorityhealth.hhs.gov, 2014).
Compare and contrast
Comparatively, Patient Centered Care relates to the aspect if having policies and practices that resonate with the involvement of the patient’s involvement and their satisfaction (Rickert, 2014). On the contrary, Cultural Competence is a broad spectrum that relates to ability of any person working in a multicultural setting to be in a position to dispense their services without cultural prejudice and interference. This means that one can work with any culture that is different from theirs and still achieve optimal performance.
In similarity, both the patient centered care and the culture competence objectives relate to the ability of a person being able to work without any form of prejudice to their clients (Minorityhealth.hhs.gov, 2014). In the case of the health care providers, they have to involve the patients in the services provision without prejudice to any culture. At the same time appreciate the differences in their cultures and that of the patients and work with them in utmost respect.
Benefits of patient centered care
There are several health care benefits that can be realized with the patient centered care. One of them is that, there is increase rates of patients’ satisfaction with quality and level of care that is offered to them. At the same time the level of outcomes of the health care services is heightened, making health care provision a quality oriented service (Hudon, Fortin, Haggerty, Lambert & Poitras, 2011). The patients -health care providers’ relationships also prosper and grow. In the past most of the health care relationships were restricted to mere acquaintances, however with the patient centered care, the patients and the medical teams can enjoy better cordial relations with respect to optimal services provision. The patients and their families are sure that their decisions are going to be respected at all times. It is also crucial that the patients and their families have access to free flowing information of the state of their health, decisions to be made a...