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Culture,
religion and patient care in a multi-ethnic society
by Alix Henley and Judith Schott
Age Concern UK, 1999 - 602 pages
About the book
Meeting individual's cultural and religious needs is an essential part
of providing care in a multi-ethnic society. This book describes ways
of identifying possible needs and offers sensitive and practical approaches
to adapting care to meet them. It is rooted in the experiences and views
of people of minority cultural and religious groups and of health professionals.
It covers:
| • | The possible influence of culture and religion on people's lives and health care requirements | ||
| • | Sensitive and practical ways of caring for patients and families in a way that meets their needs | ||
| • | Ways of improving communication across language and cultural barriers | ||
| • | Information about inequalities in health and health care provision | ||
| • | Ways of identifying and challenging institutionalised attitudes and working practices | ||
| • | Sample quality standards for care that meets cultural and religious needs | ||
| • | Detailed information on seven religious groups and five traditional cultures. | ||
This book is an important and valuable resource for everyone who provides, plans or manages health care in hospital, at home, in residential care and in hospices. Its wealth of references makes it ideal for undergraduate and post-graduate students. Although written for a British publisher, the principles, insights and practical help it offers have proven relevant to anyone providing health care for a diverse population.
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| Readers' comments and reviews 'I commend this book and suggest that it should be included as compulsory reading material in all under and postgraduate health and social care professional courses.' |
| Lola Oni, Nurse/Director/Lecturer, Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre |
| '..a welcome and unique addition to the growing literature on caring for patients in our culturally diverse society...there should be a dog-eared copy in every library.' |
| Anne Lister, Director of Nursing, North London Hospice |
| Part One: Culture, Difference and Health Care | |||
| 1 | Culture | ||
| 2 | Looking at culture and differences | ||
| 3 | Culture, illness and health care | ||
| 4 | The needs and perspectives of older people | ||
| 5 | Racial discrimination in society | ||
| 6 | Racial discrimination, the law and implications for health services | ||
| 7 | Achieving equal access to health care and challenging
racism |
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| Part Two: Providing Care in a Multi-Ethnic Society | |||
| 8 | Identifying people's needs and beliefs< | ||
| 9 | Family history, cultural heritage, names and family relationships | ||
| 10 | Religious beliefs and practices | ||
| 11 | Foods and diets | ||
| 12 | Personal hygiene and grooming | ||
| 13 | Clinical care | ||
| 14 | Medication, pain and pain relief | ||
| 15 | Consent, telling the truth and confidentiality | ||
| 16 | The place of care | ||
| 17 | The needs of relatives of people in hospital and other residential care | ||
| 18 | Care for people who are dying | ||
| 19 | Organ donation, euthanasia, suicide and sudden death | ||
| 20 | After a death: procedures and paperwork | ||
| 21 | After a death: bereavement and mourning | ||
| 22 | Service planning, management and staff education for
a multi-ethnic society |
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| Part Three: Communication | |||
| 23 | Communication in a multi-ethnic society | ||
| 24 | Language is more than just words | ||
| 25 | The consequences of the language barrier | ||
| 26 | Communicating across a language barrier | ||
| 27 | Working with professional interpreters | ||
| 28 | Using informal interpreters | ||
| 29 | Written materials | ||
| 30 | Getting people's names right |
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| Part Four: Specific Health issues | |||
| 31 | Other medical systems | ||
| 32 | Female circumcision - female genital mutilation | ||
| 33 | Haemoglobinopathies | ||
| 34 | HIV/AIDS and minority groups | ||
| 35 | Refugees and asylum seekers | ||
| 36 | Substance use |
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| Part Five: Specific Cultures and Religions | |||
| • | Includes chapters on the history and traditional cultures of African-Caribbean communities, Chinese communities, Nigerian communities, Somali communities and South Asian communities. | ||
| • | Also chapters on Christianity, including Seventh Day Adventism and pentecostalism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Judaism and Sikhism. | ||
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