You and Your Family Relocate to Another State Because Your

You and your family relocate to another state because your spouse is transferred. Once there, you find that the population of the state has more cultural diversity and a higher rate of poverty than anywhere else you have lived. You take a clinical dental hygiene position in a corporate dental clinic. After your first week on the job, you realize that your patient population is primarily of a lower socioeconomic status than you have experienced in the past and most of the children are on Medicaid. You begin to learn more about the population of your state, their culture, and cultural issues in general.
-You find in your research that your pursuit of cultural competence as a healthcare provider is stressed in the literature and supported by various government programs. All of the following EXCEPT one is given as a reason for why cultural competence in health care is important. Which one is the EXCEPTION?

A) Culture and ethnicity influence human growth and development.
B) In most states cultural competence is a requirement for dental hygiene licensure.
C) Providing effective and high-quality health care to all people is a challenge.
D) Societies are changing throughout the world.