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1. Cultural Competency

The University definition of cultural competency includes the ability to: effectively and comfortably communicate across

cultures with patients of differing backgrounds, taking into account aspects of trust in order to adopt mutually

acceptable objectives and measures. Dancing Skeletons describes how anthropologists seek knowledge of other cultures and

how cross-cultural understanding is a foundation for health interventions at both interpersonal and public health/public

policy levels. Write an essay that discusses how this anthropological study illuminates barriers to cross-cultural

understanding and contributes to cultural competency in healthcare.
Dancing Skeleton Book must be used as well as the other links and the documents provided.
Quotes and evidences have to be used in order to support the paper.

http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/culture_1.htm

http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/choudhury/culture.html

http://www.carla.umn.edu/culture/definitions.html

https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/gjay/www/CommonCulture.pdf