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Cultural Diversity in Health & Illness (6th Edition)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.10425
EAN: 9780130493798
Edition: 6
ISBN: 0130493791
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: August 02, 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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Editorial Review: The sixth edition of this best-selling resource continues to teach nursing, health professions, medical and social science readers the importance of cultural competence and cultural awareness in the health care industry. The new edition will include revised organization to create a better flow of content, new content on gererational differences, updated chapter on health care delivery system, updated illustrations and tables and MediaLink icons. For undergraduate and graduate courses in patient care and basic health related profession programs, as well as medical, social work, and other health disciplines.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Great Informational Book
The chapters are long and detailed and filled with statistics and charts that physically show the information being presented. Overall it is a well put together book that remains uniform throughout.
Rating: - It is always good to read the text before...
The book is based on some solid quantitative studies and it is important that we read the text first before inclining to accept any particular views invoked by reviews. I suggest that you read the text first and then make your mind based on your reading.
Rating:  - Not a good resource for this important area of inquiry
This review updated by author on March 21, 2006:
I recently (Spring 2005) used this text in an undergraduate health professions course titled "Diversity in Health and Illness". The author addresses a broad scope of cultures, issues and responses to cultural needs in health care. Although the book contains much that is useful, my students found it to be, on balance, confusing and disorganized.
I believe much of this response can be attributed to poor editing. We identified ... Read More
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