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Edition: 1
Release: 2011-12-19
Publisher: Lexington Books
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0739149679
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Cultural Fault Lines in Healthcare pdf
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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 is Download Cultural Fault Lines in Healthcare for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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