Cultural Differences Predict Palliative Care Development Across the United States: The Role of Cultural Tightness and Looseness
Brenna Mossman,
Damian R. Murray,
James Gerhart
et al.
Abstract:Across the United States, some regions demonstrate greater readiness to adopt palliative care than others. This geographic variation in access and utilization may be due to cultural variation in “tightness” and “looseness,” which can be understood as the relative strength and enforcement of social norms and behavioral constraint within a culture. The present study examined the influence of cultural tightness-looseness on access to palliative care (i.e., statewide percentage of hospitals with palliative care pr… Show more
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