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destination countries. The contemporary migration of health workers is also embedded in a longstanding and intensifying culture of … migration, centred on the livelihoods of extended households, and a medical culture that is oriented to superior technology and … advanced skills. This dual culture is particularly evident in small island states in the Pacific, but is apparent in other …
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Sleep is a biological imperative associated with cardiometabolic disease risk. As such, a thorough discussion of the sociocultural and demographic determinants of sleep is warranted, if not overdue. This paper begins with a brief review of the laboratory and epidemiologic evidence linking sleep...
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This article explores various contributing factors to explain differences in the strength of the primary care (PC) structure and services delivery across Europe. Data on the strength of primary care in 31 European countries in 2009/10 were used. The results showed that the national political...
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The effect of school violence on mental health was examined among 12,366 Aboriginal children and adolescents, primarily First Nations, Métis, and Inuit residing off reservations in the Canadian provinces and territories. Analyses were based on the 2006 Aboriginal Peoples' Survey, a postcensal...
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By most epidemiological accounts, young US Latinas attempt suicide more often than other youth. Little is known, however, about the circumstance and internal experiences of the attempts. To understand this phenomenon, we conducted thematic analyses of twenty-seven qualitative interviews with...
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Healthcare provider talk with parents in early acute care following children's severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects parents' orientations to these locales, but this connection has been minimally studied. This lack of attention to this topic in previous research may reflect providers' and...
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We incorporate anthropological insights into a stigma framework to elucidate the role of culture in threat perception …'s family lineage may comprise a culture-specific threat among Chinese groups. In Study 1, a national survey conducted from 2002 … European-Americans. Study 2 sought to empirically test this culture-specific threat of genetic contamination to lineage via a …
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of mainstream cultural competency training by showing that it is not the culture of the patient, but rather the structure … and culture of biomedicine that form the primary barriers to effective multicultural health care. …
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This study explores the effects of the electronic medical record (EMR) on the power of the medical profession. It is based on twenty-five in-depth interviews with administrators and physicians across three departments of a large, US integrated health system, as well as ethnographic observation,...
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, we consider Hong Kong and Taiwan to lie between the more individualistic Australian culture and the more collectivistic …
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