Cultural dimensions are the mostly psychological dimensions, or value constructs, which can be used to describe a specific culture. These are often used in Intercultural communication-/Cross-cultural communication-based research. Cross-cultural communication looks at how people, from differing cultural backgrounds, endeavor to communicate. ... Cross-cultural communication (also frequently referred to as intercultural communication) is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds endeavour to communicate. ...
See also: Edward T. Hall, Geert Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars and Shalom Schwartz. The anthropologist Edward T. Hall was born in Missouri in 1914. ... Geert Hofstede is an influential Dutch expert on the interactions between national cultures and organizational cultures, author of several books including Cultures Consequences (2nd, fully revised edition, 2001) and Software of the Mind. ... Fons Trompenaars, PhD. Author of Riding the Waves of Culture, Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Building Cross-Cultural Competence and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century. ...
Culture Studies to improve the conceptualization and operationalization of culture as well as of social and cultural change in health research.
Efforts are needed to identify those definitions and dimensions of cultural phenomena and intra-cultural and inter-cultural variation and change that are most useful in understanding health, and the mechanisms through which cultural phenomena influence health.
Research on cultural belief systems (such as religion or the nature of health/disease), at the individual, family, community, and institutional levels, and their relationships to health, including recovery from disease and addiction, with particular attention to potential mediating mechanisms (e.g., socially-determined patterns of stress and coping with stress).
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