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toms arise, and are often behind on disease-prevention
interventions such as immunizations and screenings.
Providing Culturally Competent Care
To provide culturally competent care to Asian pa-
tients, clinicians must recognize culture-related bar-
riers to health care and takes steps to overcome
them. Most important, they must take steps to com-
municate clearly with patients about health issues.
However, when treating individual patients, it is im-
portant to avoid making assumptions about a per-
son's beliefs and practices based on ethnicity or per-
ceived level of acculturation. Rather, the best
approach is to ask the person about his or her be-
liefs about the illness or condition at hand and pro-
ceed accordingly.
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