The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2007;89:1379-1384.
doi:10.2106/JBJS.F.01404
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The Relevance of Culturally Competent Care in Orthopaedics to Outcomes and Health Care Disparities*

Augustus A. White, III, MD, PhD1, James A. Hill, MD1, Audley M. Mackel, MD1, Diane L. Rowley, MD, MPH1, Emily P. Rickards, MA1 and Bill Jenkins, PhD, MPH1

1 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 645 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 910, Chicago, IL 60611

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   Introduction
 

Of all of the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.—Martin Luther King Jr.

In the context of our increasingly diverse society, culturally competent care has emerged as an important educational discipline in the training of physicians and is an essential component in the broader effort to address disparities in health care. The unique nature of this content area, namely, the ways in which it resonates on a deep level with our racial identities, national history, and core values, requires that we approach it with humility, enthusiasm, and persistence.

In this article, we provide definitions for relevant terms such as cultural competence. We also discuss why culturally competent care and education in culturally competent care are essential to the medical profession and to our society as a whole. We offer some hypotheses of the root causes of health care disparities, concluding with total . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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