Culture: The missing link in health research.

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  • Additional Information
    • Corporate Authors:
      NIH Expert Panel
    • Source:
      Publisher: Pergamon Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8303205 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-5347 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02779536 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon, c1982-
    • Subject Terms:
      Culture* ; Patient Outcome Assessment* ; Patient Selection*; Ethnicity/*psychology ; Research Design/*standards; Humans ; United States
    • Abstract:
      Culture is essential for humans to exist. Yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to identifying how culture works or developing standards to guide the application of this concept in health research. This paper describes a multidisciplinary effort to find consensus on essential elements of a definition of culture to guide researchers in studying how cultural processes influence health and health behaviors. We first highlight the lack of progress made in the health sciences to explain differences between population groups, and then identify 10 key barriers in research impeding progress in more effectively and rapidly realizing equity in health outcomes. Second, we highlight the primarily mono-cultural lens through which health behavior is currently conceptualized, third, we present a consensus definition of culture as an integrating framework, and last, we provide guidelines to more effectively operationalize the concept of culture for health research. We hope this effort will be useful to researchers, reviewers, and funders alike.
      (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
    • Grant Information:
      R01 CA158314 United States CA NCI NIH HHS
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Investigator: CR Baquet; RA Bell; L Burhansstipanov; NJ Burke; S Dibble; W Elwood; L Garro; CC Gravlee; P Guarnaccia; ML Hecht; J Henderson; D Hruschka; R Lewis-Fernández; R Like; C Mouton; HF Myers; JB Page; R Pasick; B Pescosolido; N Schoenberg; B Stoner; G Strayhorn; L Szalacha; J Trimble; TS Weisner; D Williams
      Keywords: Cross-cultural health; Culture; Culture and health; Culture defined; Culture of science; Culture, race, and ethnicity; Health disparities
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20160821 Date Completed: 20180213 Latest Revision: 20220318
    • Publication Date:
      20221213
    • Accession Number:
      10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.07.015
    • Accession Number:
      27542574