Multicultural Patient Education, Illiteracy, and Effective Communication

MULTICULTURAL PATIENT EDUCATION, ILLITERACY, AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
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Multicultural Patient Education, Illiteracy, and Effective Communication
In this modern world, health has become more and more important and it is more accessible now than ever. Despite this, there are still numerous barriers to getting good quality of healthcare, particularly in multicultural populations. Multicultural populations are made up of people from different ethnicities, races, beliefs, faiths, religions, and sometimes a combination of these. It is important to be sensitive to the needs of people from different backgrounds, as well as knowledgable in how to help them for them to be able to get the best care possible.
For example, people belonging to the religion Jehovah’s Witnesses are not permitted to get blood transfusions because they believe that blood should not be taken (from another source) because it is God who gives life (La Motte, 2018; Swihart et al., 2021). Because of this strong belief, healthcare professionals have difficulty in educating said people of possible treatments when they need it. This is a good example of a barrier to patient education, because while medical treatments are our ways of effective healing and we need to be educated about ou...