What Is Cross-Cultural Training

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Essay

What is cross-cultural training?

Acknowledge the influence of socio-economic and racial factors on health disparities.

Recognize gender differences in health outcomes and healthcare behaviors.

Understand the complex interactions between genetics, environment, socioeconomic status, and health.

Understand the concept of the looking-glass self and its significance in the formation of self-concept.

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Definitions:

Supply and Demand

Fundamental economic model based on the idea that the price and quantity of a good or service is determined by the availability (supply) and desire (demand) of that good or service.

Rationing Mechanism

A system used to allocate scarce goods and services using criteria other than price.

Surplus

An excess of supply over demand, resulting in an accumulation of unsold products or unused resources.

Equilibrium Price

The cost at which the amount of a product or service that consumers want to buy matches the amount that producers are willing to sell, resulting in a balanced market situation.