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Such a person would not have felt any need to leave his beloved homeland, and his sons desire to do so would have been traumatic f...

wheels and horse shoes" and complying with "public health inoculation programs, as well as compliance with other public health reg...

held true until the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s began to introduce legislation that has subsequently dismantled the legal s...

at once the most primitive and most efficient means of communication throughout time: the art of narration, or storytelling. Huma...

and others is becoming more and more diverse. Mwaura (2006) emphasizes that every culture has experienced a similar evolu...

things for the good of all the community, and that winning is good for all, not just the individual. There are apparently...

for there to be many cultural differences. Being fluent in the language may serve to create understanding, but alone it will not ...

Some years later, Hofstede added a fifth dimension, that of Long-Term Orientation. LTO determines the degree to which a society em...

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

is the concept of Qi, which refers to the idea that there is an energy that flows from the surface of the body to the internal org...

care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...

(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...

health services available to students. Changes over the years have diminished that role to the point of eliminating it in many sc...

and individuality as young children, they begin to assimilate their role in Japanese culture via such conventions as school unifor...

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...

which is where the AIDS population appears to lose its right to privacy. Schmidt (2005) notes that more currently, the Kennedy-Ka...

before, with the result that there is a "pill" for virtually any physical condition. Individuals taking any kind of ethical drug ...

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

problems with its water supplies as extensive deforestation has taken place over the last century which have taken its toll on the...

a model in which not only the biological components of illness were considered but also the psychological and sociological compone...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

to miscommunication. For example, in a busy hospital where there is a high degree of activity patients may be distracted and not e...

In eleven pages this paper discusses strategic planning in the health care industry with HMOs and their impact, the relationship b...

In five pages this paper examines the health care of Native Americans and considers the impact of their cultural traditions. Six...

of wine-making," though finds in Turkey indicate wine was made there as early as the "late third millennium B.C." (Berkowitz). Ho...

and Cultural Competency in Health Care: An Australian Study by Megan-Jane Johnstone and Olga Kanitsaki. * Abstract; The authors p...

in a very clear text, against a plain background1, with text written in blue making it very easy to read. This also helps the targ...

In health care, implementing evidence-based practices refers to making decisions about patient care that are based on the best evi...