OBJECTIVE: This article reviews key communication issues involved in the design of
effective and humane eHealth applications to help guide strategic development and …

OBJECTIVE: Immigrant populations are vulnerable to serious health disparities, with many
immigrants experiencing significantly worse health outcomes, such as higher rates of …

With teams growing in all areas of scientific and scholarly research, we explore the
relationship between team structure and the character of knowledge they produce. Drawing …

Presenting balanced coverage of skills and theory, Intercultural Competence provides
readers with the knowledgeable background and necessary skills to succeed in today's …

A long and yet unfinished history of investigating how individual capabilities and social
processes explain or predict health indicates that poor education, low literacy, poor health …

This article provides an overview of the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence and the
assumptions on which the model is based. The 12 domains comprising the organizing …

Advancing Health Literacy addresses the crisis in health literacy in the United States and
around the world. This book thoroughly examines the critical role of literacy in public health …

We have been struck for well over thirty years now, in both the USA and the UK, and via
research evidence from still other nations, by the continuing failures on the part of …

There is substantial epidemiological evidence that widespread adoption of specific behavior
changes can significantly improve population health. Yet, health communication efforts …

The global migration of populations presents nurses with the challenge of delivering care to
unprecedented numbers of patients with health care beliefs and practices that may differ …