Cultural differences have been mentioned in the literature as a source of misunderstandings and a barrier to access and provision of care to migrant patients (18– 20).
Integral to this teaching is an emphasis on language barriers as a source of health disparities and how to overcome these barriers through skillful utilization of interpreter services [ 4, 19].
What is considered normal can be a source of resilience, but also a barrier for the acquisition or implementation of new knowledge.
Thus, the Latino and American Indian communities differed in the ways that trauma was experienced by residents; nonetheless, trauma as a source of poor health or a barrier to good health emerged as a cross-cutting theme among all study participants.
These results led researchers to propose the doctor-patient interaction as the source of barriers to surgery [ 30- 33].
6 More generally, cost barriers are a source of disparities in access to medical care in many countries 3 4; as provision of health insurance is a major step in reducing patient costs, particularly for expensive elective procedures, our study suggests a causal connection between insurance expansion and reduced barriers to care.
As this is such an important point to my work -- the economically large and persistent U.S. trade deficits have become both a source of damaging bubbles and a steep barrier to full employment -- let me elaborate.
At the individual level, change, whether in management, ownership, or employee turnover, can be a source of distress and as such a barrier to KM [ 37, 61, 85, 91].
Now, instead of inviting us into a construction site, the fences serve only as blank, grim barriers that hide a source of urban pleasure while announcing its presence.
Today, this subtropical plant is widespread in different agricultural systems as hedges, wind protection systems, erosion barriers or as a source of firewood [ 2, 3].
