Erez Galit, Shani Michal
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Harefuah. 2008 Dec;147(12):975-7, 1030.
The immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel posed new challenges to their family physicians. The gaps in health beliefs between the Ethiopian immigrants and western medicine culture imposed difficulties on the work of the medical team. Somatization is common among Ethiopian immigrants. In this article the authors present the stories of three Ethiopian women who immigrated to Israel during the last decade. They presented many different complaints, with no medical explanations. Their stories illuminate personal, social and cultural concepts which characterize these women.
埃塞俄比亚犹太人移民到以色列给他们的家庭医生带来了新的挑战。埃塞俄比亚移民与西方医学文化在健康观念上的差距给医疗团队的工作带来了困难。躯体化在埃塞俄比亚移民中很常见。在本文中，作者讲述了三位在过去十年中移民到以色列的埃塞俄比亚女性的故事。她们提出了许多不同的主诉，但没有医学上的解释。她们的故事揭示了这些女性所特有的个人、社会和文化观念。
