Cultural sensitivity in clinical practice

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 275-288

  Tsasis, Peter ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culture; Illness Behavior; Systems Theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; SYSTEMS THEORY;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 0034151308     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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