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Descriptor English: Cultural Competency
Descriptor Spanish: Competencia Cultural
Descriptor competencia cultural
Entry term(s) capacidad intercultural
capacidad transnacional
competencia intercultural
competencia transcultural
competencia transnacional
competencias culturales
competencias interculturales
comunicación intercultural
interculturalidad
interculturalismo
mediación intercultural
mediación transnacional
relaciones inter-étnicas
relaciones interétnicas
relaciones étnicas
sensibilidad cultural
Scope note: Conjunto de comportamientos, actitudes y políticas que confluyen en un sistema, un organismo o entre profesionales y que permite el trabajo eficaz en situaciones interculturales. La competencia implica la capacidad de funcionar eficazmente como individuo y como organización en el contexto de las creencias, conductas y necesidades culturales que presentan los consumidores y sus comunidades.
Descriptor Portuguese: Competência Cultural
Descriptor French: Compétence culturelle
Entry term(s): Competence, Cultural
Competency, Cultural
Cultural Competence
Cultural Competencies
Cultural Sensitivity
Tree number(s): I01.880.853.100.364
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D054521
Scope note: Cultural and linguistic competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations. Competence implies the capacity to function effectively as an individual and an organization within the context of the cultural beliefs, behaviors, and needs presented by consumers and their communities.
Annotation: consider also TRANSCULTURAL NURSING; for issues concerning health, coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Allowable Qualifiers: ED education
ES ethics
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
PX psychology
Previous Indexing: Culture (1966-2007)
Public MeSH Note: 2008
History Note: 2008
Related: Culturally Competent Care MeSH
Transcultural Nursing MeSH
DeCS ID: 52938
Unique ID: D054521
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2008/01/01
Date of Entry: 2007/07/09
Revision Date: 2014/06/16
Cultural Competency - Preferred
Concept UI M0505884
Scope note Cultural and linguistic competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations. Competence implies the capacity to function effectively as an individual and an organization within the context of the cultural beliefs, behaviors, and needs presented by consumers and their communities.
Preferred term Cultural Competency
Entry term(s) Competency, Cultural
Cultural Competencies
Cultural Competence - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0511231
Preferred term Cultural Competence
Entry term(s) Competence, Cultural
Cultural Sensitivity - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000748925
Scope note Awareness and appreciation of the values, norms, and beliefs characteristic of a cultural, ethnic, racial, or other group that is not one's own, accompanied by a willingness to adapt one's behavior accordingly. (https://dictionary.apa.org/cultural-competence)
Preferred term Cultural Sensitivity



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