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  title info:
    title: Cultural Competence in Health Care
  name:
    name part: Tseng, Wen-Shing.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Streltzer, Jon.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 138 p. online resource.
  abstract: Cultural Competence in Health Care A Guide for Professionals Wen-Shing Tseng, University of Hawaii, Honolulu Jon Streltzer, University of Hawaii, Honolulu Between a growing pan-ethnic patient base, the need to solve inequalities of care, and the clinical desirability of viewing clients in their entirety, applied cultural knowledge is emerging as a major goal of clinical and public health practice. Cultural Competence in Health Care offers a wealth of this crucial knowledge with emphasis on day-to-day clinical work. Authors Tseng and Streltzer, well-known experts on transcultural medicine and therapy, start by differentiating between disease and illness and advise on a range of practical matters, from discussing culturally sensitive subjects to negotiating compromises between traditional healing and established medicine, so that readers will gain both useful working techniques and valuable empathy with clients. Case studies highlight medical issues as they apply to various minority (and majority) groups, and eight insightful chapters reveal cultural dimensions expressed in: Concepts of illness and illness behaviors. Assessment, interviews, and symptom presentation. Hospitalization, medication, family involvement, consent issues. Highly charged medical areas, e.g., pain management, transfusions, reproductive issues, organ donation. Frequently stigmatized conditions such as AIDS, STDs, cancer, and psychiatric disorders. Care by non-medical professionals, including social workers, physical therapists, and nutritionists. Cultural Competence in Health Care is equally suited to use by practitioners and students in medicine, psychology, nursing, social work, and affiliated fields. And since it’s one of the only practice-oriented books on the topic, cross-cultural courses in training programs will find it especially useful.
  table of contents: Culture and Medical Practice -- Cultural Competence in Healthcare Specialties -- Culture and Clinical Assessment -- Healthcare for People of Different Ethnicities -- Culture and Medical Diseases -- Culture and Mental Disorders -- Culture and Medical Care -- Culture and Special Medical Issues -- Conclusions.
  note: by Wen-Shing Tseng, Jon Streltzer.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Psychiatry
  subject:
    topic: Health psychology
  subject:
    topic: Medicine & Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Psychiatry
  subject:
    topic: Health Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Medicine/Public Health, general
  classification: RC434.2-574
  classification: 616.89
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