the way a culture prevents and cures disease or illness or cares for victims of disasters or accidents the concepts of health and wholeness well being and medical problems differ by culture some countries have witch doctor spiritual remedies and herb medications others like India have fewer government-sponsored social services while Britain has a system of socialized medicine the United States is in the midst of a major transition in its health-care and delivery system
and there is increasing emphasis on universal cover-age prevention and wellness health models and alternative holistic medical treatments medical practicing cross-cultural medicine