What is the key to culturally competent care: Reducing bias or cultural tailoring?

Psychology and Health

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 493-507

  Cuevas, Adolfo G ^a,c   O’Brien, Kerth ^a   Saha, Somnath ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

clinician patient relationships; cultural competency; ethnic minorities; focus groups; health care disparities; patient centred care

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTENTION; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; RACISM; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; TRUST; ADULT; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RACISM;

EID: 85011653984     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2017.1284221     Document Type: Article

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