Cultural diversity is becoming increasingly more important in the workplace. This is
particularly true in health care organizations facing demographic shifts in the patients served …

This textbook provides the kind of comprehensive and in-depth preparation your students
need to communicate optimally with patients, families, and fellow providers. Combining …

Cultural barriers to compassionate care are presented from two perspectives in healthcare:
the patient and the health professional. Content areas include autonomy clashes between …

Why the study of culture and its clinical application is important in mental health training and
service? Mental health and illness is a set of subjective experience and a social process and …

Concerns over low uptake of cervical screening among minority ethnic women have spurred
much research and practical activity to address the problem. Due to theoretical and …

Why the study of culture and its clinical application is important in mental health training and
service? Mental health and illness is a set of subjective experience and a social process and …

Despite unprecedented advances in science, health technology and public sanitation in the
last five decades, African-American babies born in the United States continue to die at twice …

Statement of the problem. Learning to manage a diverse work force may be one of the
greatest challenges to the survival of effective health care in the 21st century. There is a …

This paper is divided into an introduction and four chapters. Its purpose is to provide a
framework for understanding the present state of theory, research, and interventions in the …