title: Cross cultural issues in adolescent medicine.
abstract: This article provides general guidelines and principles for physicians caring for adolescent patients from various cultural backgrounds. Suggestions are offered for managing the special problems presented by new immigrants. Case vignettes are liberally used to illustrate health care issues.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000295:Adolescent Medicine; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States