Health Matters: A Pocket Guide for Working with Diverse Cultures and Underserved Populations

This pocket-sized resource guides health care workers to understand and be sensitive to the needs of patients from different cultures and backgrounds. Based on the highly successful handbook written for the state of Iowa, this brand-new, expanded guide offers strategies for how providers can understand and give culturally appropriate care, and chapters on the cultural patterns, health practices and underlying belief systems of underserved groups.