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MeSH Heading: Culturally Competent Care
Tree Number(s): N04.590.374.052; N05.300.206
Unique ID: D065246
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D065246
Annotation: coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Scope Note: Health care services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients. The provider and the patient each bring their individual learned patterns of language and culture to the health care experience which must be transcended to achieve equal access and quality health care.
Entry Term(s): Cross-Cultural Care; Cultural Care; Culturally Competent Health Care; Culturally Congruent Care; Culturally Sensitive Care
NLM Classification #: W 84.5
Previous Indexing: Clinical Competence (1994-2014)
See Also: Clinical Competence; Cultural Competency
Public MeSH Note: 2015
History Note: 2015
Date Established: 2015/01/01
Date of Entry: 2014/06/26
Revision Date: 2022/07/13

Allowable Qualifiers: classification (CL)

economics (EC)

ethics (ES)

ethnology (EH)

history (HI)

legislation & jurisprudence (LJ)

organization & administration (OG)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

trends (TD)

Concept UI: M0588506
Scope Note: Health care services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients. The provider and the patient each bring their individual learned patterns of language and culture to the health care experience which must be transcended to achieve equal access and quality health care.
Terms: Culturally Competent Care Preferred Term
Term UI T850367
Date10/28/2013
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); Cross-Cultural Care
Term UI T850369
Date10/28/2013
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); Cultural Care
Term UI T850368
Date10/28/2013
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); Culturally Competent Health Care
Term UI T850371
Date10/28/2013
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); Culturally Congruent Care
Term UI T850370
Date10/28/2013
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015)

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