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    This document discusses cross-cultural communication in healthcare. It notes that language and cultural barriers can complicate communication between healthcare providers and patients. Interpretation requires skill to explain terms and concepts across different linguistic and cultural perspectives on health issues. As patient populations have become more diverse, methods are being developed to improve cultural sensitivity, such as the LEARN model which focuses on improving communication processes rather than just sharing cultural information. The model has helped providers communicate better, increase awareness of cultural issues, and gain greater acceptance of treatment plans from patients.

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    This document discusses cross-cultural communication in healthcare. It notes that language and cultural barriers can complicate communication between healthcare providers and patients. Interpretation requires skill to explain terms and concepts across different linguistic and cultural perspectives on health issues. As patient populations have become more diverse, methods are being developed to improve cultural sensitivity, such as the LEARN model which focuses on improving communication processes rather than just sharing cultural information. The model has helped providers communicate better, increase awareness of cultural issues, and gain greater acceptance of treatment plans from patients.

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    This document discusses cross-cultural communication in healthcare. It notes that language and cultural barriers can complicate communication between healthcare providers and patients. Interpretation requires skill to explain terms and concepts across different linguistic and cultural perspectives on health issues. As patient populations have become more diverse, methods are being developed to improve cultural sensitivity, such as the LEARN model which focuses on improving communication processes rather than just sharing cultural information. The model has helped providers communicate better, increase awareness of cultural issues, and gain greater acceptance of treatment plans from patients.

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    This document discusses cross-cultural communication in healthcare. It notes that language and cultural barriers can complicate communication between healthcare providers and patients. Interpretation requires skill to explain terms and concepts across different linguistic and cultural perspectives on health issues. As patient populations have become more diverse, methods are being developed to improve cultural sensitivity, such as the LEARN model which focuses on improving communication processes rather than just sharing cultural information. The model has helped providers communicate better, increase awareness of cultural issues, and gain greater acceptance of treatment plans from patients.

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    ENGLISH 2

    CROSS CULTURE COMMUNICATION

    BY :

    DINI NOVITA SARI


    1411311028

    NURSING FACULTY
    ANDALAS UNIVERSITY
    2014/105
    Cross Culture Communication

    COMMUNICATION in health care is a complex issue. Language and cultural barriers complicate the
    situation. Language is the framework in which the world view of a culture is molded, and it describes the
    boundaries and perspectives of a cultural system. A language barrier disarms a communicant's ability to
    assess meanings, intent, emotions, and reactions and creates a state of dependency on the individual who
    holds the keys to the entire process—the interpreter.

    Interpretation requires a great deal of skill. Interpreters find it necessary to describe and explain terms,
    ideas, and processes that lie outside of the linguistic systems of clients. The interpretation process must
    account for divergent world views. Individuals and cultures have varying perspectives regarding the
    cause, presentation, course, and treatment of sickness, as well as the risk it represents to others.

    Significant demographic changes in patient populations have contributed to an increasing


    awareness of the impact of cultural diversity on the provision of health care. For this reason
    methods are being developed to improve the cultural sensitivity of persons responsible for giving
    health care to patients whose health beliefs may be at variance with biomedical models.

    Building on methods of elicitation suggested in the literature, we have developed a set of


    guidelines within a framework called the LEARN model. Health care providers who have been
    exposed to this educational framework and have incorporated this model into the normal
    structure of the therapeutic encounter have been able to improve communication, heighten
    awareness of cultural issues in medical care and obtain better patient acceptance of treatment
    plans.

    The emphasis of this teaching model is not on the dissemination of particular cultural
    information, though this too is helpful. The primary focus is rather on a suggested process for
    improved communication, which we see as the fundamental need in cross-cultural patient-
    physician interactions.

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