Achieving cultural competency
Subtitle: a case-based approach to training health professionals
By: editors-in-chief, Lisa Hark, Horace DeLisser ; senior editor, Gail Morrison.
Contributors: Hark, Lisa.; DeLisser, Horace.; Morrison, Gail.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Hoboken, NJ, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781405180726
Subjects: Transcultural medical care -- Case studies; Physician and patient -- Case studies; Medical personnel -- Training of -- Case studies; Cultural Competency -- Case Reports; Ethics, Clinical -- Case Reports; Physician-Patient Relations -- Case Reports; Prejudice -- Case Reports
Genres: Case studies.; Case Reports.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The case of Ruth Franklin : 40-year-old African-American woman with heart failure; title: The case of Carl Jones : 48-year-old homeless Caucasian man with chest pain and lung cancer; title: The case of Maria Morales : 57-year-old Mexican woman with type 2 diabetes; title: The case of Maya Mohammad : 16-year-old Arab-American teenager with leukemia; title: The case of Jon Le : 48-year-old Korean man with cerebral hemorrhage; title: The case of Nadia Rosenberg : 45-year-old Russian woman with drug-resistant tuberculosis; title: The case of Isabel Delgado : 47-year-old Dominican woman with hypertension; title: The case of George Dennis : 35-year-old African-American man with a cough; title: The case of Mary Jones : 2-year-old Caucasian girl with delayed speech development; title: The case of Priya Krishnamurthy : 73-year-old Asian-Indian woman with a stroke; title: The case of Carlos Cruz : 34-year-old Mexican man with sleep apnea and metabolic syndrome; title: The case of Denise Smith : 41-year-old Caucasian woman with asthma; title: The case of Mae Ling Chung : 22-year-old Chinese woman with an arranged marriage; title: The case of Earl Collins : 73-year-old African-American man with lung cancer; title: The case of Irma Matos : 66-year-old Ecuadorian woman with type 2 diabetes and hypertension; title: The case of Eileen Clark : 82-year-old African-American woman with a stroke; title: The case of Leslie O'Malley : 66-year-old Irish-American man with breast cancer; title: The case of Juana Caban : 21-year-old Puerto Rican woman who is pregnant and HIV+; title: The case of Alice Gregory : 71-year-old African-American woman with aortic stenosis; title: The case of Sunil Guha : 32-year-old Asian-Indian man with metabolic syndrome; title: The case of Pepper Hawthorne : 19-year-old Caucasian woman with a stroke; title: The case of Alika Nkuutu : 24-year-old African woman with sickle cell disease; title: The case of Miguel Cortez : 9-year-old Mexican boy with asthma; title: The case of Naomi Fulton : 49-year-old African-American woman with metabolic syndrome; title: The case of Bobby Napier :68-year-old rural Appalachian man with type 2 diabetes.