title: Providing culturally sensitive care to Hispanic patients in Arkansas.
abstract: Providing culturally sensitive care to Hispanic patients can lead to a better patient-physician relationship. Greater compliance, improved health care delivery and treatment efficacy also are enhanced when health care providers understand the Hispanic patient's expectation of care and health paradigm. An inability to understand the Hispanic patient's health beliefs, social system and barriers to health care may lead to a communication breakdown and compromise maximal delivery of care.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Perez Williams
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: McPherson
mesh_terms: D001131:Arkansas; D003469:Culture; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012648:Self Care