Cultural competence and cultural safety support health professionals to recognise everyone as unique in order to promote optimal health outcomes. This allows for the acknowledgement of diversity that exists within and between individuals and groups in health care. In practice, this represents the broader understanding of culture in health care, and encompasses the dynamic influences of culture on attitudes, values and beliefs. Alongside culture, the understanding of diversity is inclusive of – yet not exclusive to – age and generation, sex and gender identity, socio-economic status, occupation, ethnicity or migrant experience, religion or spirituality, and ability or disability.
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