Understand The Culture of Your Practice
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." -- Bertrand Russell. Culture can be seen as an integrated pattern of learned beliefs and behaviors that can be shared among groups and includes...
How Culture Affects Expectations of Physicians
In the process of developing culturally responsive care, it is important to consider the ways in which patients' health beliefs and behaviors are likely to differ from their provider's if the two come from different cultural backgrounds. In this cross-cultural...
Culturally-Based Differences in Child Rearing Practices
Pediatricians providing anticipatory guidance to parents from diverse cultural backgrounds need to understand the different value systems operating in individualistic and collectivist societies. Questions about child behavior, development and parenting are central to...
Design Your Handouts and Surveys for Low Health Literacy
The ability of any patient or caregiver to communicate ailments/symptoms, medical history (personal and family), and other medical information is vital to proper care. Similarly, while it is important to assess the patient and/or family's experience of care, many...
Culture and Pregnancy-related Depression
Although the cultural aspects of the pregnancy-related period have been studied extensively worldwide, the impact of cultural factors upon pregnancy-related depression ( also known as postpartum depression) has been less investigated. Most research into...
Time Control: Coping with Late Patients and No-Shows
In many private pediatric and family practices, as well as the Child Health Clinic at Children’s Hospital Colorado, providers and staff talk about the challenges of working with patients and families who show up very late for appointments – or no-show entirely ...