Cultural brokerage: Creating linkages between voices of lifeworld and medicine in cross-cultural clinical settings

Health

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 484-504

  Lo, Ming Cheng Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; cultures of medicine; immigrant patients; lifeworld; primary care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 77956083501     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459309360795     Document Type: Article

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