Culturally Sensitive Care for Latinos
Patricia T.G., (2015).
The presenter gives a succinct introduction that makes her connect with the audience, she gives her personal challenges that are connected to the presentation like the way the topic is large and inability to talk less as is required, but in the same breath gives the immediate solution and hope in having a good and informative presentation on the issue of culturally sensitive care to the Latinos. She also indicates that there would be printed papers as resources that would give further clarifications and details for all those who would be interested at the end of the session.
The presenter first highlights the topic and emphasizes on the huge number of Latinos in America, which runs into 35.3 million which makes this topic a central and significant topic to talk about since the number of Latinos is increasing with time. She further supports the significance of the topic by giving the projections of 2050 when Latinos will be expected to be 24.4% of the American population. The presenter is positive that the projection could be right since the Latinos love to have babies hence the significance of the provision of culturally sensitive care to such a huge population that have their own values that they uphold, apart from the shared values with other Americans. The health and the mental health of this population will have a significant impact on the healthcare system within America in the near future.
The traditional American culture is depicted to have little effect...
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