Cultural competence in health care and its implications for pharmacy: Part 1. Overview of key concepts in multicultural health care

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1062-1079

  O'Connell, Mary Beth ^a   Korner, Eli J ^a   Rickles, Nathaniel M ^a   Sias, Jeri J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Age; Cultural competence; Cultural diversity; Culture; Ethnicity; Gender; Health care delivery; Health policy; Health service accessibility; Minority; Pharmacy; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PHARMACY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MORALITY; NOMENCLATURE; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; REVIEW; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; PHARMACY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250893722     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1592/phco.27.7.1062     Document Type: Review

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