Multicultural issues in general practice
Citation
Reidpath, D.D. and Allotey, P.A. (1999) ‘Multicultural issues in general practice’, Current Therapeutics, 40(12). Available at: https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.532797847961126.
Abstract
People's experiences of health and illness vary widely and are affected by factors such as age, gender, education, socioeconomic status and culture. Additional factors such as language, culture and pre- and post-migration experience affect people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Individual patients are their own cultural expert; no resource can be comprehensive enough to give the health practitioner better information than asking the patient.