What Should Students Learn About the Importance of Cultural Brokering in Immigrant Communities?

Cultural brokers can help clinicians meet needs of immigrant patients. This article considers loneliness as an endemic experience of immigrants in the United States and discusses how cultural brokerage practices can reduce the ill health effects of loneliness by helping clinicians contextualize their interactions with immigrant patients and by helping immigrants navigate the health care system and build social connections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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