| Description |
1 online resource (313 pages) |
| Contents |
Achieving Cultural Competency; Contents; Contributors; CME Disclosure Information; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Tools to Assess Cultural Competency Training (TACCT); Case 1 Ruth Franklin: A 40-year-old African American woman with heart failure; Case 2 Carl Jones: A 48-year-old homeless Caucasian man with chest pain and lung cancer; Case 3 Maria Morales: A 57-year-old Mexican woman with type 2 diabetes; Case 4 Maya Mohammed: A 15-year-old Arab American teenager with leukemia; Case 5 Jon Le: A 48-year-old Korean man with cerebral hemorrhage |
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Case 6 Nadia Rosenberg: A 53-year-old Russian woman with drug-resistant tuberculosisCase 7 Isabel Delgado: A 47-year-old Dominican woman with hypertension; Case 8 George Dennis: A 35-year-old African American man with AIDS; Case 9 Mary Jones: A 2-year-old Caucasian girl with delayed speech development; Case 10 Priya Krishnamurthy: A 73-year-old South Asian Indian woman with a stroke; Case 11 Carlos Cruz: A 34-year-old Mexican man with sleep apne |
| Summary |
Achieving Cultural Competency: A Case-Based Approach to Training Health Professionals provides the necessary tools to meet the ever-growing need for culturally competent practitioners and trainees. Twenty-five self-study cases cover a variety of medical topics, including cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurology, oncology, hematology, immunology, and pediatric disorders. Actual scenarios that occurred in clinical settings help the user gain direct insight into the realities of practice today. Cultural factors covered within the cases include cultural diversity plus gender, language, folk beliefs, s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Transcultural medical care.
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Health.
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Medicine.
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Social sciences.
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Health
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Medicine
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Social Sciences
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health.
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medicines (material)
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social sciences.
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medicine (discipline)
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Health
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Medicine
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Social sciences
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Transcultural medical care
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
DeLisser, Horace
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| ISBN |
9781444311679 |
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1444311670 |
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1282139576 |
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9781282139572 |
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9781444311686 |
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1444311689 |
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