Global Perspectives Inform Sensitive Healthcare

Healthcare practitioners in the U.S. and those training to earn those positions can take inspiration from events across the globe – both current and historic – to inform themselves in providing more sensitive and culturally competent care. This includes acknowledging topics such as ideological barriers, discrimination, and trauma. This article provides several examples in each of these three categories of where increases in quality of care are needed and how they can be accomplished. There is evidence that suggests that making these improvements will increase the quality of care offered to patients, particularly those of minority groups.