Communication with patients from other cultures: The place of explanatory models

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 474-478

  Bhui, Kamaldeep ^a   Bhugra, Dinesh ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; EMPATHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MODEL; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHIATRIST; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 8644255844     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.10.6.474     Document Type: Article

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