Product Description: Led by a UCLA-trained health psychologist, a team of experts describes non-traditional treatments that are quickly becoming more common in Western society, documenting cultural variations in health and sickness practices to underscore the diversity among human society...read more

Product Description: Major changes are occurring in the United States population and the nation's health care institutions and delivery systems. Significant disparities in health status exist across population groups. But the health care enterprise, with all its integrated and disparate parts, has been slow to respond...read more

The sixth edition of this best-selling resource continues to teach nursing, health professions, medical and social science readers the importance of cultural competence and cultural awareness in the health care industry. The new edition will include revised organization to create a better flow of content, new content on gererational differences, updated chapter on health care delivery system, updated illustrations and tables and MediaLink icons. For undergraduate and graduate courses in patient care and basic health related profession programs, as well as medical, social work, and other health disciplines.

Healthcare in the U.S. faces two interpenetrating certainties. First, with over 66 racial and ethnic groupings, our “American Mosaic” of worldviews and values unavoidably generates clashes in hospitals and clinics. Second, our public increasingly mistrusts our healthcare system and delivery. One certainty fuels the other. Conflicts in the clinical encounter, particularly with patients from other cultures, often challenge dominant assumptions of morally appropriate principles and behavior. In turn, lack of understanding, misinterpretation, stereotyping, and outright discrimination result in poor health outcomes, compounding further mistrust. To address these cultural fault lines, healthcare institutions have initiated efforts to ensure “cultural competence.” Yet, these efforts become institutional window-dressing without tackling deeper issues, issues having to do with attitudes, understanding, and, most importantly, ways we communicate with patients. These deeper issues reflect a fundamental, original fault line: the ever-widening gap between serving our own interests while disregarding the concerns of more vulnerable patients, those on the margins, those Others who remain disenfranchised because they are Other. This book examines this and how we must become the voice for these Others whose vulnerability and suffering are palpable. The author argues that, as a vital and necessary condition for cultural competency, we must learn to cultivate the virtue of Presence - of genuinely being there with our patients. Cultural competency is less a matter of acquiring knowledge of other cultures. Cultural competency demands as a prerequisite for all patients, not just for those who seem different, genuine embodied Presence. Genuine, interpersonal, embodied presence is especially crucial in our screen-centric and Facebook world where interaction is mediated through technologies rather than through authent

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Product Description: Race, Culture and Disability: Rehabilitation Science and Practice is a guide to understanding the research and practical implications related to race, culture and disability in rehabilitation science. Edited and contributed by leading experts, this multidisciplinary work examines the intersection of the constructs of race, culture and disability in order to identify strategies for improving the effectiveness of rehabilitation practice with ethnic minority consumers...read more

Product Description: Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion, 2nd edition, examines the importance of ethnic and cultural factors for community health practice. Edited and written by a stellar list of contributors who are experts in field, this book describes essential theories, models, and practices for working with race, ethnicity, gender, and social issues...read more

Product Description: The thoroughly updated Second Edition of Health Promotion in Multicultural Populations grounds readers in the understanding that health promotion programs in multicultural settings require an in-depth knowledge of the cultural group being targeted...read more

Product Description: Chapters cover health and illness, pregnancy and prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum and newborn care, and much more.

Product Description: This textbook provides a framework for speech-language pathology students and speech-language pathologists to develop an understanding of the many issues related to providing clinical services to individuals from diverse cultures who have various linguistic backgrounds. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Gardenswartz and Rowe, both consultants specializing in management issues such as diversity, stress, and team development, have developed a collection of activities, resources, and training materials designed to facilitate a successful training program in any kind of health care organization. The to

Product Description: Promoting Health in Multicultural Populations will prove an excellent shelf reference for health and human service providers and scholars, and a valuable text for students in a wide variety of professional disciplines, including public health and other arenas of health care, social work, and medical sociology and anthropology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cultural Diversity as a Strategic Advantage This insightful and practical work should be required reading for managers, physicians, nurses, allied health caregivers, and support staff, in order to overcome barriers to communication and change in dealing with an increasingly complex patient and employee base...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Eleven papers from the May 1995 workshop in Granada, Spain focus on the idea that the issues and problems of immigration in the United States and the European Union have many commonalities and that much can be learned from examining the experiences, successes, and failures of both regions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book helps all human services, social workers, helping professionals and/or health care professionals to develop their awareness and understanding of cultural attitudes to health care, and to develop competence in dealing with the ethnic diversity of health care recipients...read more

Product Description: A professor of nursing, expert in multicultural health care and social services, describes the basic attitudes and beliefs of 15 important ethnic and religious groups in America and shows how these traits can affect behavior during illness or during social work interventions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)