Cultural Issues in Healthcare: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities

This book is designed to prepare medical, biomedical, and other health professionals in training to provide healthcare services to patients by utilizing the scholarship in the published chapters to better understand the evolving symbiotic relationship between attention to the needs of patient communities and achieving effective access, treatment, and quality of care. The editors and chapter authors are established practitioners in the areas they write about, and the book can be used for active learning in classes as a supplemental text and for board exam questions. The target market includes all medical, dental, nursing, physician assistant, and other academic programs, as well as organizations such as the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners, the American Medical Colleges, the National Medical Association, the Association for Medical Ethics, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American Dental Education Service, the American Public Health Association, the National Association of Medical Minority Educators, the American Sociological Association, and the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Format: Hardback
Length: 172 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

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Weight: 488g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031208256
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023