Some states now require health care providers to develop their cultural competence to allow them to give the best possible care to patients from all backgrounds:
Newsday: States consider educating doctors on culturally specific care
Cornell University Press has published two books that address this issue through the use of ethnography:
Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting by Vilma Santiago-Irizarry
and
Ginseng and Aspirin: Health Care Alternatives for Aging Chinese in New York by Zibin Guo