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Healthcare

The MTPD fosters awareness about national identity, as a cohesive whole, provides contexts and the impact these have on one’s role in the society. For example, the functioning of marginalized communities. We are educating students, addressing cultural differences, making clear that we share universal rights and dignity no matter where we are from, by emphasizing that one cannot explain away injustices by cultural relativism.

Knowledge Café

Knowledge Café – Cultural Humility in Health Care

Concept of cultural humility is distinguished from that of cultural competence.
Cultural humility incorporates a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and critique, to redressing the power imbalances (…), and to developing mutually beneficial (…) relationship with communities on behalf of individuals and defined populations (Melanie Tervalon).

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CULTURE AND SLEEP

At some fundamental level, sleep-related behaviors and sleep problems in children represent a complex interpolation of biological, psychologic/developmental/environmental, and social influences, the relative contributions of

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