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Ministries of health in several sub-Saharan African countries, including Zambia, Uganda, and South African, were reported to have begun planning health system reform including hospital accreditation before 2002. However, most hospitals in Africa are administered by local health ministries or missionary organizations without accreditation programs.
Cultural competence is a practice of values and attitudes that aims to optimize the healthcare experience of patients with cross cultural backgrounds. [7] Essential elements that enable organizations to become culturally competent include promoting diversity, being conscious of the dynamics inherent when cultures interact, having institutionalized cultural knowledge, and having developed ...
The WHO did not merely consider health care outcomes, but also placed heavy emphasis on the health disparities between rich and poor, funding for the health care needs of the poor, and the extent to which a country was reaching the potential health care outcomes they believed were possible for that nation. In an international comparison of 21 ...
While African American culture is a significant influence on its Canadian counterpart, many African and Caribbean Canadians reject the suggestion that their own culture is not distinctive. [31] In his first major hit single " BaKardi Slang ", rapper Kardinal Offishall performed a lyric about Toronto's distinctive Black Canadian slang:
The Académie des sciences, des arts, des cultures d'Afrique et des diasporas africaines (ASCAD), created on 1 September 2003 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, [1] is an African cultural institution whose objective is to contribute to the development and influence of science, arts, African culture and that of the African diaspora. It is also aimed at ...
The Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, also known as the Romanow Report, is a committee study led by Roy Romanow on the future of health care in Canada. It was delivered in November 2002. [1] Romanow recommended sweeping changes to ensure the long-term sustainability of Canada's health care system.
However, Canada until the 1960s saw itself in terms of English and French cultural, linguistic and political identities, and to some extent indigenous. [20] European immigrants speaking other languages, such as Canadians of German ethnicity and Ukrainian Canadians , were suspect, especially during the First World War when thousands were put in ...
The Lalonde Report is a 1974 report produced in Canada formally titled A new perspective on the health of Canadians. [1] It proposed the concept of the "health field", identifying two main health-related objectives: the health care system; and prevention of health problems and promotion of good health. The report is considered the "first modern ...