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Cultural diversity in health and illness / Rachel E. Spector.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Edition: Seventh editionDescription: xxiii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0135035899
  • 9780135035894
Related works:
  • Revision of: Spector, Rachel E., 1940- Cultural diversity in health & illness
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10425 22
LOC classification:
  • RA418.5.T73 S64 2009
Contents:
Cultural foundations -- Cultural heritage and history -- Diversity -- Health and illness -- Health domains -- Health traditions -- Healing traditions -- Familial health traditions -- Health care delivery and issues -- Health and illness panoramas -- Health and illness in the American Indian and Alaska native population -- Health and illness in the Asian populations -- Health and illness in the Black population -- Health and illness in the Hispanic populations -- Health and illness in the White populations.
Review: "The seventh edition of this well-respected book continues to promote an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Completely revised and updated, it examines the differences existing within North America by probing the health-care system and consumers, and citing examples of traditional health beliefs and practices among selected populations."--BOOK JACKET.
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Revised edition of: Cultural diversity in health & illness / Rachel E. Spector. 6th ed. c2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-394) and index.

Cultural foundations -- Cultural heritage and history -- Diversity -- Health and illness -- Health domains -- Health traditions -- Healing traditions -- Familial health traditions -- Health care delivery and issues -- Health and illness panoramas -- Health and illness in the American Indian and Alaska native population -- Health and illness in the Asian populations -- Health and illness in the Black population -- Health and illness in the Hispanic populations -- Health and illness in the White populations.

"The seventh edition of this well-respected book continues to promote an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Completely revised and updated, it examines the differences existing within North America by probing the health-care system and consumers, and citing examples of traditional health beliefs and practices among selected populations."--BOOK JACKET.

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