Intercultural health and ethnobotany: How to improve healthcare for underserved and minority communities?

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 746-754

  Vandebroek, Ina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC BOTANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual review; Cultural competence in healthcare; Ethnosciences; Medicinal plants; Public health; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOMEDICINE; BOLIVIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOBOTANY; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

CONCEPTUAL REVIEW; CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTHCARE; ETHNOSCIENCES; MEDICINAL PLANTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MINORITY GROUPS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84880310746     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2013.05.039     Document Type: Review

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