The recent immigration of larger numbers of refugees from various regions of the world has presented a challenge to the health-care system. There are marked perceptual differences between recent immigrants and health-care providers in such areas as the definition of kinds and causes of diseases, illness behaviors, treatment modalities, and patterns of health-care decision making and accessing of care. Understanding these perceptual differences from the perspective of cultural themes is a useful crosscultural tool for nursing. © 1991, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

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