Intercultural and cross-cultural health communication: Understanding people and motivating healthy behaviors.
Intercultural and cross-cultural health communication: Understanding people and motivating healthy behaviors.
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跨文化和跨文化健康沟通：了解人们并激励健康行为。
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1995
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通讯作者：
K. Morrison
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作者：
K. Witte;K. Morrison
作者研究了与跨文化健康理解相关的经验概念，并就如何促进医生或公共卫生从业者与患者之间的有效沟通和理解提供了理论视角。然而，虽然医生和病人之间的有效沟通和相互理解是促进健康和预防疾病的必要条件，但这本身是不够的。一旦对健康问题达成相互理解，就必须激励人们以促进健康的方式采取行动。盲目应用西方的理论来鼓励这种行为在某些文化中可能是不恰当的，甚至是有害的。需要基于文化的理论和方法。作者确定了在激励患者坚持医疗方案或激励目标受众改变健康促进或疾病预防行为时要考虑的文化普遍性和文化特定性经验变量。
The authors examine empirical concepts related to intercultural health understanding and offer a theoretical perspective upon how to promote effective communication and understanding between physicians or public health practitioners and their patients. However while effective communication and mutual understanding between practitioners and patients is a necessary condition to promoting health and preventing disease it is not enough on its own. Once mutual understanding of a health issue is reached people must be motivated to act in health-promotive manners. The blind application of Western-based theories on how to encourage such behavior may be inappropriate and even harmful in some cultures. Culturally-based theories and approaches are called for. The author identifies culturally-universal and culturally-specific empirical variables to consider when motivating patients to adhere to medical regimens or when motivating target audiences to change their behaviors in health promoting or disease-preventing ways.