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People from which culture would prefer that healthcare professionals not intrude on personal space and not use first names (unless invited to do so)? A. African Americans B. Italians C. Latin Americans D. Germans

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A. African Americans

Step-by-step explanation:

Healthcare professionals need to have knowledge about the cultural costumes of each society in order to increase the care of their patients and have a higher performance. Thus, all the range of healthcare professionals (including, among others, doctors, dentists, nurses, etc) should have prepared to deal with patients from different cultures because each culture present particularities in regard to their perceptions of illness, health and death, as well as culture-specific beliefs associated with the causes of such diseases.

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