title: [Healthcare and culture, between diversity and universality].
abstract: Interrelations exist between people's behaviour and the reasons for it as explained by culture. The healthcare theory put forward by the American nurse Madeleine Leininger, at the end of the 1970s, integrates anthropology Identifying and understanding the patient's culture enables nursing care to be adapted to the patient's own view of his/her disease.
authors.affiliation: Département des sciences infirmières et paramédicales, Ecole des hautes études en santé publique, Paris. deboutc@aol.com
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Debout
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000592:standards; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D005007:Ethnology; D005789:Genealogy and Heraldry; D006801:Humans