________________________________________________________________ Cultural Humility in Healthcare
CULTURAL HUMILITY IN HEALTHCARE Self-Assessment Answers and Rationales
1. The correct answer is b. Rationale: Cultural humility is an ongoing process, which requires continual self-reflection and self-critique. Cultural humility is a pre- requisite to cultural competency. 2. The correct answer is b. Rationale: The highest number of foreign-born people came from Asia. They represented 33.1% of the population of foreign-born people by country of birth residing in the U.S. 3. The correct answer is a. Rationale: The highest poverty rates are experienced by Native Ameri- can Indians, Alaska Natives, Black women, and Latinas. About one in four Alaska Native women live in poverty. 4. The correct answer is b. Rationale: The type of functional disability that has the highest percentage is cognition. The percentage of people with mobility dis- ability is 12.2%. 5. The correct answer is d. Rationale: Oppression is a pervasive system. It has its foundation in history and is maintained via individual and institutional systematic discrimination, personal bias, bigotry, and social prejudice. Oppres- sion leads to a condition of privilege for the person or the group that is the oppressor(s).
6. The correct answer is c. Rationale: Creation of vulnerabilities are created by the cumulative impact of the creation margins and living between cultures. Vulner- ability is defined as a state of being exposed to and unprotected from health-damaging environments 7. The correct answer is b. Rationale: Healthcare professionals often attempt to take the emphasis off race, class, gender, and other areas of difference by denying the effect these aspects of diversity have on patients (e.g., “The only race I know is the human race”), or by trying to show that they under- stand the patient’s experience because they, too, are a member of an oppressed group. 8. The correct answer is d. Rationale: Being White makes it easier to assimilate into the domi- nant culture and to partake in unearned privileges many White people enjoy but do not acknowledge. 9. The correct answer is a. Rationale: Multicultural perspectives provide the opportunity for two persons – from different cultural perspectives – to disagree without one being right and the other wrong. 10. The correct answer is b. Rationale: Although there are variations among the definitions of social justice, there are three factors that are part of all definitions. These are equal rights, equal opportunity, and equal treatment. In other words, social justice mandates equal rights and equal opportu- nities for all.
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