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Foreward -- Acknowledgements -- How this Book Works. On Our Way to a New Culture -- Clocks and Calendars: Navigating Concepts of Organization -- Sharing, Hiding, and Hoarding: Navigating Concepts of Finance -- Allies and Obligations: Navigating Concepts of Friendship -- Magic, Morality and Entities in the Air: Navigating Concepts of Spirituality -- Riddles and Gifts: Navigating Concepts of Communication and Conflict -- Standards, Status and Resources: Navigating Concepts of Leadership -- Labor, Loyalty, and Lounging Around: Navigating Concepts of Work -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Cultural Adjustment Process -- Appendix B: Data Points for Travelers -- References -- Index

This article forwards a novel approach regarding the U.S. military's growing focus on building cross-cultural competence. This piece argues that a link exists between the armed forces' internal cultural diversity issues and the military's objective to heighten its ability to work effectively in foreign cultures. Cross-cultural competence means the knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral repertoire and skill sets that military members require to accomplish all given tasks and missions involving cultural diversity. Despite the military's noteworthy historic progress in the area of building a diverse and cohesive force, it possesses some ongoing cultural diversity problems. The article examines three concerns within the ranks of the U.S. military: signs of religious intolerance, some ongoing resistance toward women service members, and antihomosexual attitudes and conduct. This piece explores these concerns and also argues that ameliorating these cultural diversity issues will contribute to building cross-cultural competence in the military.

Cultural competence has been recommended as a strategy to reduce health inequalities among migrants but, so far, the effects on health care remain sparse. Cultural competence neglects the roles played by the institutional and political levels on the attitudes of health professionals. This thesis aims at challenging the health inequities experienced by migrants in involving the health professionals and the institutions at the meso and the macro levels. We investigated three main research questions. To what extent do culturally competent interventions contribute to the reduction of health inequalities and to the improvement of quality of care? How cultural competence is implemented and diffused in the health services in Belgium? We conducted the COMETH study, a quantitative empirical study with a social network analysis design. What are the best practices and political recommendations for improving equity in health for migrants beyond cultural competence? Firstly, when the intervention aims at reducing health inequalities, universal interventions are more adapted, while improving quality of care requires specific interventions. Secondly, the sense of responsibility of health professionals towards cultural competence is influenced by the context surrounding the health services. Thirdly, cultural competence spreads in health services through effects of leadership, particularly the role-modelling, rather than through interpersonal relationships. Fourthly, there is a low level of commitment towards cultural competence among health professionals. The responsibility to adapt is put on the individuals or patients rather than on the institutions and the policymakers. Finally, the concept of cultural competence is discussed in the Belgian health system. ; (SP - Sciences de la santé publique) -- UCL, 2013

Cultural competence has been recommended as a strategy to reduce health inequalities among migrants but, so far, the effects on health care remain sparse. Cultural competence neglects the roles played by the institutional and political levels on the attitudes of health professionals. This thesis aims at challenging the health inequities experienced by migrants in involving the health professionals and the institutions at the meso and the macro levels. We investigated three main research questions. To what extent do culturally competent interventions contribute to the reduction of health inequalities and to the improvement of quality of care? How cultural competence is implemented and diffused in the health services in Belgium? We conducted the COMETH study, a quantitative empirical study with a social network analysis design. What are the best practices and political recommendations for improving equity in health for migrants beyond cultural competence? Firstly, when the intervention aims at reducing health inequalities, universal interventions are more adapted, while improving quality of care requires specific interventions. Secondly, the sense of responsibility of health professionals towards cultural competence is influenced by the context surrounding the health services. Thirdly, cultural competence spreads in health services through effects of leadership, particularly the role-modelling, rather than through interpersonal relationships. Fourthly, there is a low level of commitment towards cultural competence among health professionals. The responsibility to adapt is put on the individuals or patients rather than on the institutions and the policymakers. Finally, the concept of cultural competence is discussed in the Belgian health system. ; (SP - Sciences de la santé publique) -- UCL, 2013