Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach
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This textbook offers a framework for the collection of health data concerning individuals and groups from diverse cultural backgrounds. After an overview of culture and ethnicity per se, it explains the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence. Sixteen chapters then describe the healthcare needs and practices of specific groups. (Material on several other groups appears on the accompanying CD-ROM.) Most of the contributors are Registered Nurses. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Margaret Brackley This book on transcultural health care in North America argues for respect for differences within the American culture by incorporating traditional practices into ""professional prescriptions and interventions."" The authors propose to introduce a new and evolving conceptual model for learning about culture by providing macro and micro approaches to the study of culture. Additionally, they describe the characteristics of certain ethnocultural groups selected because they exist in large numbers, have new immigration status, are dispersed widely within North America, information about a group is lacking, or they hold minority status. The book targets nursing students in colleges and universities. According to editors, the ethnocultural groups selected for this book are described by authors who were chosen because they are members of the selected culture or have vast experience and knowledge about that culture. Indeed, the chapter authors are well known within the transcultural nursing community. The authors offer educators who adopt this book a disk for use on personal computers or for reproduction of study materials. At the end of each chapter, a case study and study questions are presented. The book also includes a glossary of terms. This is an interesting book. The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence presents a focused way of studying the materials. The authors celebrate diversity without identifying culture as a problem to be overcome in order to deliver Western health care as some other approaches do. Some expected materials arc not included in this book. Kleinman, Eisenberg and Good's Explanatory Model, used widely in transcultural nursing care, is not presented. On theother hand, cultures are represented that are often omitted in other texts. This new textbook appears easy to use and is filled with ways to help students become culturally competent.
IntroductionCh. 1Transcultural Diversity and Health Care1Ch. 2The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence8Ch. 3People of African American Heritage40Ch. 4The Amish54Ch. 5People of Appalachian Heritage73Ch. 6People of Arab Heritage90Ch. 7People of Chinese Heritage106Ch. 8People of Cuban Heritage122Ch. 9People of Filipino Heritage138Ch. 10People of French Canadian Heritage160Ch. 11People of Iranian Heritage177Ch. 12People of Irish Heritage194Ch. 13People of Italian Heritage205Ch. 14People of Japanese Heritage218Ch. 15People of Jewish Heritage234Ch. 16People of Korean Heritage249Ch. 17People of Mexican Heritage264Ch. 18Navajo Indians279Ch. 19People of Polish Heritage284Ch. 20People of Puerto Rican Heritage307Ch. 21People of Vietnamese Heritage327App. ACultural and Racial Diseases and Illnesses345Glossary351Index359
