MIGRACIÓN Y COMPETENCIA CULTURAL: UN DESAFÍO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES DE SALUD

Both the culture and the social groups to which we belong, affect the way we conceptualize our health and we relate to health care workers. The understanding of this influence is especially relevant since the increasing arrival of migrants communities in our country. This scenario poses significant challenges for health care workers in the delivery of patient-centred care. Among them, the need to develop new competences that allow delivering care which considered the users beliefs and values. This is called cultural competence. This paper pretends to argue how the sociocultural conditions modified our conception of health/disease and the importance of generating strategies to healthcare workers incorporate cultural competences in health.