Cultural differences in medical communication: A review of the literature

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 64, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 21-34

  Schouten, Barbara C ^a   Meeuwesen, Ludwien ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Doctor patient communication; Ethnicity; Intercultural communication; Medical communication; Review

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMPATHY; FORECASTING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MINORITY GROUPS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREJUDICE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33748524329     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2005.11.014     Document Type: Review

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