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Applying cultural sensitivity in medicine
Claim:
It is important for accurate diagnosis that you first get the history and be sensitive to a persons's culture. Only then can you understand the patterns of illness and isolate diseases which may or may not be particular to an ethnic group.
Broader:
Practicing medicine
Discriminating culturally
Narrower:
Supporting traditional health care
Problems:
Cultural bias in medicine
Values:
Sensitivity
Insensitivity
Oversensitiveness
Subjects:
Medicine
→
Medicine
Action
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Application
Culture
→
Culture
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals: