Notes for Community Voices: Exploring Cross Cultural Care through Cancer

The following series of video clips have been assembled from Community Voices: Exploring Cross Cultural Care through Cancer, a video produced by Jennie Greene and Kim Newell, MD, at the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, Harvard School of Public Health. The program is distributed by Fanlight Productions (www.fanlight.com). This video explores the way that people of different cultures experience and understand cancer. It also seeks to explain how cultural beliefs and attitudes about cancer affect prevention, screening, and treatment for this disease. The vignettes that Community Voices offer about cancer demonstrate the influence of culture on disease and treatment. These examples are relevant to many situations that health providers face when providing care to people of different races and ethnicities. Let's take a look at some of these vignettes and what they teach us about the way culture shapes the way our patients interpret risk, participate in screening, pursue prevention, seek treatment, and respond to the recommendations of their physicians.

Notes for The Culture of Emotions

Created for training in psychiatry, psychology, social work, counseling, medicine, and nursing, The Culture of Emotions offers a conceptual bridge between Western diagnostic concepts and explanations and traditional world views of health and pathology from a variety of societies. To create the "Voices of the Providers and Patients" section of this seminar, we have compiled several provider vignettes that discuss cultural issues of AAPI populations from this excellent video production. The Culture of Emotions was produced by Harriet Koskoff and is distributed by Fanlight Productions (www.fanlight.com).