Role of cultural brokering in advancing holistic primary care for diabetes and obesity: a participatory qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Diabetes and obesity care for ethnocultural migrant communities is hampered by a lack of understanding of premigration and postmigration stressors and their impact on social and clinical determinants of health within unique cultural contexts. We sought to understand the role of cultural brokering in primary healthcare to enhance chronic disease care for ethnocultural migrant communities.

Design and setting

Participatory qualitative descriptive-interpretive study with the Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative in a Canadian urban centre. Cultural brokers are linguistic and culturally diverse community health workers who bridge cultural distance, support relationships and understanding between providers and patients to improve care outcomes. From 2019 to 2021, we

SUBMITTER: Luig T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10921915 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature