Transcultural Medicine: Dealing with Patients from Different Cultures

ISBN-13: 9789401163668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str.

B. Qureshi

Opis

WHY WE MUST PRACTISE TRANSCULTURAL MEDICINE Health professionals and GPs should concern themselves with ethnicity, religion and culture as much as with the age, sex and social class of their patients.

Spis treści

I: General Aspects.- 1. Avoiding communication problems.- 2. Ethnic terminology and occupations.- 3. History-taking and the examination.- 4. Factors affecting diagnosis and how to avoid diagnostic traps.- 5. Psychiatric disorders among different ethnic groups.- 6. Diet-related diseases.- 7. Avoiding diagnostic traps related to customs.- 8. Diseases related to visits to country of origin.- 9. Therapy and multi-ethnic groups: factors affecting treatment.- 10. Alternative therapies and ethnic groups.- II: Special Considerations.- 11. Cultural conflicts in a mixed marriage.- 12. Disease patterns in mutli-ethnic groups in the UK.- 13. Hidden corners of ethnic medical history.- 14. Gaps and needs in ethnic care.- 15. Transcultural factors in the consultation: the three generations concept.- 16. Management of ethnic Asian patients in general practice.- 17. Obstetric problems in multi-ethnic women.- 18. Family planning and culture.- 19. Paediatric problems in various ethnic groups.- 20. Pharmacists’ understanding of cultural customs and dangers of multi-therapy.- 21. Midwife, health visitor and nurse: dealing with patients from different cultures.- 22. Cultural aspects of the MRCGP examination.- 23. Muslim patients and the British GP.- 24. Nutritional problems in ethnic groups.- 25. Skin problems encountered in multi-ethnic patients.- III: Selected Points.- 26. Multi-cultural medicine: a series in the British Medical Journal.- 27. Transcultural medicine: education and examination.- Appendix: Resources available.