European adolescents may experience stress in a different way from Australian adolescents owing to differences in cultural background, education, living conditions, norms and standards.
Australia and Japan have different systems of psychiatric health care, and distinct differences in cultural values, but enjoy similar standards of living.
Our work indicates that this variation is partly a function of national differences in cultural tightness – that is, the degree to which a culture's norms are clear and likely to be enforced by authorities through the use of sanctions.
Equally important are differences in cultural beliefs, dietary habits, and behavioral patterns among AANHPIs that require culturally effective translation of interventions into the community.
Thus, differences in cultural cognition necessarily give rise to differences in metaphorical conceptualization in different languages.
Nor do the considerable differences in cultural orientation divide the threesome.
The authors of the study speculated that this reflected differences in cultural norms, rather than in actual behavior.
Certain differences in cultural attitudes and world outlook are said to accompany this kind of linguistic difference.
The distribution of T gondii could explain differences in cultural aspects that relate to ego, money, material possessions, work and rules, Lafferty added.
The usual suspects — inadequate patient education, differences in cultural perceptions, problems of health literacy — all overlook an important fact: Medicine is a foreign language.
Yale's David Bach explains how to gain an edge by effectively navigating the complicated global landscape of differences in cultural, political, and regulatory norms.
