num_pages: 432
description: The eighth 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 CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS examines the differences existing within North America by probing the health care system and consumers and examples of traditional health/ HEALTH beliefs and practices among selected populations. An emphasis on the influences of recent social political and demographic changes helps to explore the issues and perceptions of health and illness today while new introductory and capstone chapters help place material within perspective. An essential for any health-care professional this book sets the standard for cultural perspectives and more importantly HEALTH the balance of the person both within ones beingphysical mental and spiritualand in the outside worldnatural communal and metaphysical. (Terms such as HEALTH  are written this way to emphasize holistic meaning.)
language: English
title: Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness
publisher: Pearson