Optimising clinical practice in cancer genetics with cultural competence: Lessons to be learned from ethnographic research with Chinese-Australians

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 235-248

  Eisenbruch, Maurice ^a   Yeo, Soo See ^a   Meiser, Bettina ^b   Goldstein, David ^b   Tucker, Kathy ^b   Barlow Stewart, Kristine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Chinese Australian culture; Cultural competence; Family history; Hereditary cancer; Kinship

Indexed keywords

GENETICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER GENETICS; CHINESE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY; FATHER; FEMALE; FORCE; GENE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; INTERVIEW; LIFE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEORY;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; CULTURE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 2042530134     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.10.016     Document Type: Article

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