Culture and its impact on health assessment and interventions is widely recognised as an essential aspect of medical training. While courses are proliferating throughout Africa and the rest of the developing world, there has, until now, been no suitable student textbook or reference text to support such initiatives. The authors of Cultural Issues in Health and Health Care deal with the basic principles of transcultural care and focus on training practitioners to be able to put the principles into practice in their own health settings. Moreover, this book would be a suitable prescribed text for health-related sociology and anthropology courses.        

Key Features

• Outcomes based
• Case studies
• Examples from across southern Africa for assessment and intervention
• Self-evaluation questions