Cultural diversity for health professions

Issue title: Workers and the Worksite: Research and Practice

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Glazner, Linda K.

Affiliations: Linda K. Glazner and Associates, Inc., 903 Parcher Street, Wausau, WI 54403, USA. Tel.: +1 715 849 1776; Fax: +1 725 849 2840; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to help focus attention on why clinical health professionals need to be concerned about cultural diversity. It is not intended to be an exhaustive report on cultural diversity. Rather, attention is focused on the practitioner and how this provider can and should use and understand cultural diversity. While most of the examples in this article come from the press in the United States, the information has a much broader, universal and global implication.

Keywords: Cultural diversity, ethnocentrism, folkways

Journal: Work, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 297-302, 2006