Cultural sensitivity in public health: Defined and demystified

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 10-21

  Resnicow, Ken ^a   Baranowski, Tom ^b   Ahluwalia, Jasjit S ^c   Braithwaite, Ronald L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural Sensitivity; Ethnicity; Health Communication; Intervention Development

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESEARCH; REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RESEARCH;

EID: 0033404410     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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