Culture, religion and health care
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The field of cultural psychiatry explores the link between clinical descriptions of mental distress, biological and physiological manifestations of distress, and social and environmental factors. Cultural psychiatry has expanded its field of interest from clinical psychiatry and treatment of the individual patient to public health and global health and well-being. Cultural psychiatry as a discipline has its origins in medical anthropology and is particularly focussed on exploring the cultural influences on the expression of symptoms, interpretations and explanatory models for symptoms, coping style and responses from family, relationships with carers, mental health professionals and traditional healers. Each of these contributes to thinking about an overall diagnosis, and should take account of spiritual and religious.
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