Cultural diversity in health and illness

Description:

"Written for all health care providers, this text promotes awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from culturally diverse backgrounds. The author through discussions of her own experiences, shows how cultural heritage can affect delivery and acceptance of health care and how professionals, when interacting with their clients, need to be aware of these issues in order to deliver safe and professional care. Traditional and alternative health care beliefs and practices from Asian American, African American, Hispanic, and American Indian perspectives are represented."--Jacket.

subjects: Attitude of Health Personnel,  Attitude to Health,  Cross-Cultural Comparison,  Cultural Competency,  Cultural Diversity,  Delivery of Health Care,  Ethnic groups,  Ethnology,  Health Status,  Health and hygiene,  Health attitudes,  Medical anthropology,  Medical care,  Medical personnel and patient,  Minorities,  Social medicine,  Socioeconomic Factors,  Transcultural medical care,  Transcultural nursing,  Soins infirmiers transculturels,  Attitudes à l'égard de la santé,  Gesundheitsverhalten,  Kulturvergleich,  Santé, Services transculturels de,  Krankenpflege,  Ethnicity,  Sante?, Services transculturels de,  Attitudes a? l'egard de la sante?,  Enfermagem transcultural,  Saúde pública,  Intercultural communication,  Communication in medicine

Places: United States