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The world is facing movements of peoples unparalleled in history. Even the heartland of the American continent, which has seen few new population groups since the European immigration of the nineteenth century, has felt the effects of this restive population shift during the late 1980s and 1990s. Physicians who themselves have had little experience outside their own cultural environment are now dealing with health and social issues of patients who approach their surroundings in profoundly different ways than they might themselves. Yet the differences have always been present.
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Fernandez, E.S., South-Paul, J.E., Matheny, S.C. (1998). Sociocultural Issues in Health Care. In: Taylor, R.B., David, A.K., Johnson, T.A., Phillips, D.M., Scherger, J.E. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2947-4_4
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