Multiculturalism, medicine and health part I: multicultural health care.
CULTURALLY SENSITIVE HEALTH CARE IS NOT A MATTER OF SIMPLE FORMULAS OR PRESCRIPTIONS THAT PROVIDE A SINGLE DEFINITIVE ANSWER: rather, it requires understanding of the principles on which health care is based and the manner in which culture may influence those principles. This series of six articles will examine influences that ethnic and cultural background may have on health and health care. Part I outlines the development, importance and relevance of multicultural health care. The author stresses the importance of understanding community needs, cultures and beliefs; the active interest and participation of the patient in his or her own health care; the importance of a good physician-patient relationship; and the benefit of an open-minded approach by physicians and other health-care workers to the delivery of health-care services.
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