(7) Cultural humility is also an important step in helping to âredress the imbalance of power inherent in physician-patient relationshipsâ or other relationships between care providers/researchers and those they serve.
Diffusion (noun). the act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion. Diffusion (noun). the act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body.
Diffusion refers to the process by which molecules intermingle as a result of their kinetic energy of random motion. Consider two containers of gas A and B separated by a partition. The molecules of both gases are in constant motion and make numerous collisions with the partition.