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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781284021028
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1284021028
• Author: Lois A. Ritter

Fully updated and expanded, the Second Edition of Multicultural Health serves as a comprehensive guide for healthcare workers in any cultural community. Focusing on differences in cultural beliefs about health and illness, and models for cross-cultural health and communication, this text helps students and professionals learn effective ways to implement health promotion programs and program evaluation across cultures. – NEW! – Full color design and art program – NEW! – A Student Activity added to each chapter to challenge student comprehension. – NEW! – Two new Feature Boxes Added to each chapter titled, What do you think? and Did you Know?, to engage readers and enhance critical thinking. – NEW! – Chapter 3, Worldview and Health Decisions provides information about the ways that worldview and communication impacts health, the provision of health services, health care decisions, and communication.

Table contents:

Unit I The Foundations

Chapter 1 Introduction to Multicultural Health 2

Chapter 2 Theories and Models Related to Multicultural Health 31

Chapter 3 Worldview and Health Decisions 51

Chapter 4 Complementary and Alternative Medicine 67

Chapter 5 Religion, Rituals, and Health 92

Chapter 6 Communication and Health Promotion in Diverse Societies 118

Unit II Specific Cultural Groups

Chapter 7 Hispanic and Latino American Populations 149

Chapter 8 American Indian and Alaskan Native Populations 173

Chapter 9 African American Populations 201

Chapter 10 Asian American Populations 226

Chapter 11 European and Mediterranean American Populations 244

Chapter 12 Nonethnic Cultures 266

Chapter 13 Closing the Gap: Strategies for Eliminating Health Disparities 291

References 301

Glossary 302

Index 308