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GLOSSARY
Cultural Competency
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.
Cultural Humility
A supportive framework for developing cultural competence
by using the ability to acknowledge gaps in one’s knowledge
and an openness to new ideas, contradictory information, and
advice.
Health Literacy
The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain,
process, and understand basic health information and services
needed to make appropriate health decisions.
Health-Disparity
Populations
Populations with a significant disparity in the overall rate of
disease incidence, prevalence, morbidity, mortality, or survival
rates in the population as compared to the health status of
the general population. As such racial and ethnic minorities
(i.e., African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives,
Asians, Hispanics, and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific
Islanders), low socioeconomic status, and rural persons are
currently designated as health disparity populations.
Learning Style
An individual’s natural or habitual pattern of acquiring and
processing information in learning situations.
Learning Style Inventory
Typically a questionnaire used to assess one’s preference for
learning or processing information. Different models of learning
styles have different categorizations.
Musculoskeletal
Conditions
Include joint diseases such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid
arthritis; back and neck pain; osteoporosis and fragility
fractures; soft tissue rheumatism; injuries due to sports and
in the workplace; and trauma commonly related to road traffic
accidents.