Our culture affects the way we look after ourselves. It should shape the health care we receive, too

Australia is a multicultural society, and our health services need to be designed accordingly. From shutterstock.comThis article is the final part in a series, Where culture meets health. For South Asians, there’s a distinct difference between “rice with curry” and “curry with rice”. When we spoke to Indian and Sri Lankan migrants with type 2 diabetes and heart disease, they told us the advice they received on ways to reduce the quantity of staples like rice in their diet was difficult to implement. This was because it doesn’t match with their perception of a “proper” meal – that is, a lot of rice and a little bit of curry. Receiving dietary advice not tailored to their cultural needs created a feeling that clinicians didn’t understand the social

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