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Cultural Diversity - A Guide for Health Professionals

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The guide presents health and socio-cultural information on multicultural communities (including torture and trauma and issues for children, young people and women). It encourages health staff to actively explore cultural issues with patients and cautions against stereotyping.

It was developed for Queensland Health on the basis of research conducted by the Australian Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, The University of Queensland, from November 1997 to April 1998.

Please note: as this publication was published in 1998, some of the contact details are dated.  Click here for up-to-date contact details for a wide range of services.

Contents
Preface Muslims from West Asia
Bosnian Muslims Philippines
Cambodians Samoans and Tongans
Chinese Serbians
Croatians Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Greeks Vietnamese
Hmong Child and youth
Italians  Torture and trauma
Latin Americans Women

 

Cultural Dimensions of Pregnancy, Birth and Post-Natal Care

Eleven profiles were developed as part of the Multicultural Clinical Support Resource Cultural Dimensions of Pregnancy, Birth and Post-Natal Care chapter.

It was developed for Queensland Health in 2009 by a team from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University.

Cultural profiles
Burmese Malaysian
Chinese Papua New Guinean
Fijian Samoan
Filipino Sudanese
Indian Vietnamese
Japanese

 


Last Updated: 26 February 2009
Last Reviewed: 23 February 2009