Culturally responsive care for Hmong patients: Collaboration is a key treatment component

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Her, Cheng ^a   Culhane Pera, Kathleen A ^b,c  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Fam and Comm Med Residency Prog   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MINORITY GROUP; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; REFUGEE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; WAR;

EID: 19744368946     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2004.12.1623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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