Some practical problems in providing a psychiatric service for immigrants.
Immigrant minority groups in a multicultural society create certain problems for the psychiatric services, because of language, diagnostic differences, acceptability, treatment expectations and other differences. A clinical team has been established at a Bradford psychiatric hospital where there are many Asian patients, and some of the problems encountered are described.
D001208:Asia / Q000208:ethnology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003469:Culture; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004739:England; D005550:Foreign Medical Graduates; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008605:Mental Health Services; D008913:Minority Groups; D011287:Prejudice; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations