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Running Head: HEALTH COMMUNICATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Health Communication and Cultural Diversity
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HEALTH COMMUNICATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
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Healthcare communication is one of the most effective ways of eliminating health
disparity across a diverse population. The primary objective of healthcare professionals is to
ensure equitable and sustainable healthcare is availed to the patients (Freimuth & Quinn, 2004).
Despite this overarching goal, communicating with diverse population presents several
challenges to healthcare professionals. To ensure adequate provision of health care services to
the diverse population, health organizations have established a set of policies aimed at providing
quality healthcare to a diverse population. However, the reality is that what the organization and
the medical professionals regard as high-quality intervention is merely based on various
misconceptions especially concerning diversity in culture (Freimuth & Quinn, 2004). Some
major misconceptions when communicating with diverse population include the following.
An important misconc...