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• HEALTH ASSESSMENT-LEC


  CONCEPTS AND TERMS RELATED
• PURPOSES OF ASSESSING CULTURE IN HEALTH CARE


  • To learn about clients' beliefs and practices
  • To compare and contrast the clients' beliefs and practices to standard Western health beliefs and practices
  • To compare the clients' beliefs and practices with those of other persons of a similar cultural background
• PROCESS


  1. Cultural awareness

  2. Cultural knowledge

  3. Cultural encounters
• ACCULTURATION


  The process when a person from one culture adopts the beliefs and behaviors of another culture, to varying degrees
• ASSIMILATION


  The gradual adoption and incorporation of characteristics of the prevailing culture
• CULTURAL DIVERSITY


  The co-existence of diversity in behavior, values and customs, often arising from cross-border population flows
• CULTURAL IMPOSITION


  The forceful application of the dominant group's cultural view upon individuals and families
• CULTURAL RELATIVISM


  The belief that the behaviors and practices of people should be judged from the context of their cultural system
• ENCULTURATION


  A natural, conscious and unconscious conditioning process of learning accepted cultural norms, values and roles in society and achieving competence in one's culture through socialization
• ETHNICITY


  A socially, culturally, and politically constructed group that holds in common specific characteristics not shared by others whom members of the group came into contact
• ETHNOCENTRISM


  The universal tendency of humans to think their ways of thinking, acting, and believing are the only right, proper and natural ways
• STEREOTYPING


  A simplified and often exaggerated conception, opinion, or belief about some aspect of an individual or group
• CULTURAL VALUES AND BELIEFS TO ASSESS


  • Value orientation
  • Beliefs about human nature
  • Beliefs about relationship with nature
  • Beliefs about the purpose of life
  • Beliefs about health, illness, and healing
  • Beliefs about what constitutes appropriate behavior
  • Beliefs about death
  • Beliefs about who serves in the role of healer or what practices bring about healing
  • Beliefs about the meaning of suffering and pain
• FACTORS AFFECTING APPROACH TO PROVIDERS


  • Ethnicity of both client and health care provider
  • General status of both client and health care provider
  • Educational level
  • Religion
  • Previous health care experiences
  • Occupation and income level
  • Beliefs about time and space
  • Communication needs/preferences
• FACTORS AFFECTING DISEASE, ILLNESS, HEALTH STATE


  • Biomedical variations
  • Nutrition/dietary habits
  • Family roles and organizations, patterns
  • Workforce issues
  • High-risk behaviors
  • Pregnancy and childbirth practices