title: Transcending the barriers of cultural diversity in health care.
abstract: The focus of this paper is on the diverse cultures impacting health care. Initiatives to advance a sense of responsibility, a unified, competent health care congruent with multicultural requirements of people in a kaleidoscopic society are cited. Selected scenarios depicting barriers in transcultural/cross-cultural health care are presented, and mechanisms to transcend the barriers are advocated.
authors.affiliation: Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Abaldon@it.luc.educ
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Baldonado
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003144:Communication Barriers; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003479:Curriculum; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000193:education