Alarcón Ana M, Vidal Aldo, Neira Rozas Jaime
Departamento de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Frontera, Montt 112, Temuco.
Rev Med Chil. 2003 Sep;131(9):1061-5.
Over the past few years, intercultural health has become an emerging issue in health policy. Intercultural health is an approach to create a better communication between patients and providers. In the short term, this approach incorporates patient's culture background in health care, improving intercultural communication strategies to generate, in the long term, a health system adapted to the medical culture of patients. This article explores the underlying concepts in the intercultural health approach, such as cultural diversity and medical systems as complex models of thoughts and behaviors.
在过去几年中，跨文化健康已成为卫生政策中的一个新问题。跨文化健康是一种在患者与医疗服务提供者之间建立更好沟通的方法。短期内，这种方法将患者的文化背景纳入医疗保健中，改进跨文化沟通策略，从长远来看，构建一个适应患者医疗文化的卫生系统。本文探讨了跨文化健康方法中的基本概念，如文化多样性以及作为复杂思想和行为模式的医疗体系。
