Cultural Differences In Health And Social Care

communication, also the use of listening skills are to be applied.
Cultural differences – in relations to health and social care setting it is important that health communication programs must be able to locate the cultural and social quality of health care challenges when working with service users from a different cultural background. However, health workers cannot assume that other cultures are ready to submit to their philosophies and belief systems.
To overcome this barrier, it is significant to respect other people’s culture and way of life by learning about the cultural differences among people you work with. Service providers must organize staff training on how to learn cultural differences. As health care worker another strategy to overcome this barrier is to avoid making assumptions about people who are different and contemplate on how to involve advocates who will represent the best interest of others. Within the health and social care settings, a woman doctor or nurse should be allowed to give information to the patients that because their culture don’t permit them to communicate with men. In some cases, for religious, …show more content…
The psychiatrist said “good morning”, he introduced himself and told the service user that, he was there to do an assessment on her to know the cause of her mental health disorder, for example, whether her mental health is due to anxiety, depressive disorders or from alcohol and other substance abuse and also to know the kind of treatment she will be on. However, the psychiatrist was unfamiliar with the young lady’s deterioration hearing problem. The lady uses signs to express herself, but the psychiatrist do not know how to pass on the information using signs. Therefore the psychiatrist move himself closer to the lady so that she could see his face and he made a hand gesture explaining to