Centre for the Cross Cultural Study of Health & Healing (CCSHH)
The Centre for the Cross-Cultural Study of Health and Healing
is a nonprofit organization established at the U of A in 1984 to
study multicultural health issues.
The Centre’s Goals:
To research the relationship between culture and medicine; to explore cultural diversity as it engages the Canadian Health Care System; and to provide training for professionals in cultural competence and intercultural understanding.
CCSHH began as The Project for the Study of Traditional Healing Practices in 1984 at the U of A under the direction of Dr. David Young. In 1990, the U of A officially recognized CCCSHH as an interdisciplinary research project; in 1992 the it approved changing the status of the project to a Centre and in 2000, CCCSHH became part of the Research Division of Family Medicine.
Centre Staff and Research Associates
A
multidisciplinary team of academics, health care professionals, graduate students, and
community members, share a commitment to the analysis of health and healing from a pluralist perspective.
RECENT PUBLICATION OF INTEREST (2012)
H.H. Tsai, H.W. Lin, A. Simon Pickard, Y. Tsai, G. B. Mahady
Linked Comment :Ernst. Int J Clin Pract 2012; 66:1019-20.2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
1056 Int J Clin Pract, November 2012, 66, 11, 1056-1078. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2012.03008.x
