Southeast Asian Cultural Differences in the U.S.

There are many cultural differences that exist between the Southeast Asian immigrant community and ours when in comes to medical treatment. This can have a huge impact on the health care they receive. Some of the differences are social or based on Eastern beliefs, and others come from a lack of knowledge of Western medicine, because many elderly immigrants have had little or no experience with western medicine prior to coming here. Jingduan Yang, MD practices Integrative Medicine at Jefferson University, and explains many of these differences. Also featured are Thoai Nguyen of SEAMAAC, Lilian Wu, Hitomi Yoshida and Giang Nguyen, MD.

Topics: Building Community, Community Health, Health Care, Health Care Access, Immigrants, Public Health, Receiving Communities
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