Abstract: Ethnic minority and immigrant groups in Western societies face serious challenges in accessing health and social care services. When addressing these challenges, disciplines related to public health have to overcome many issues related to cultural differences between providers and recipients of care, as well as lack of cultural sensitivity of professional practices and services (Ingleby et al , 2005). Such issues are frequently associated with the necessity to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and with the impossibility of disseminating and implementing ‘best practice’ models with underlying assumptions of socioeconomic and cultural capital homogeneity which have proved inadequate to address the needs of socially and culturally disadvantaged people (Wandersman, 2003).
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-07-22
Language: en
Type: editorial
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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