Question

1- Discuss your experience with health disparities, the experience can be personal, experience of a family member or friend, or an event you have witnessed. The post is 250-300 words and provide supporting evidence from the readings or TEDx to support your description of your experience as a health disparity. Cite your sources and cite throughout the text. Add a Works Cited line at the end of the post.

2- Discuss your findings, provide the cultural group preforming the ritual, the purpose of the ritual, who conducts the ritual – do you know if that person as special training or is believed to hold special powers, and any other findings you feel should be included.

Answer 1

Q1

Answer: Health disparities is present in every corner of the world and it is very common among the minorities by the majority of people in a particular area. Once a show a patient staying in the ortho ward, he has undergone a total knee replacement, the patient is complaining to the nurse for having pain in the surgery part. This information was given to the doctor. The doctor advises to flush normal saline instead of analgesic as they cannot able to afford money for medication and they do not know anything about the medical treatment. That was the worst experience and it is a health disparity sometimes practice in the hospital. This is happening because they are coming from the minorities people and they are illiterate. As a health worker whether the patient is a minority or illiterate, giving respect and provide equity treatment is the primary role of the health worker.

Q 2

Answer: Every cultural group performs the ritual and it is to maintain a spiritual peaceful mind to the people who are in stress. Different people have different rituals of person to do the ritual. It is not about they hold any power or underwent any training. It is all about his or her ability to control the mind of the people by connecting with spiritual peaceful needs by every individual in the population. We cannot see the God but still it the believe that the ritual person can connect us with the God , this makes the mind peaceful and prevent from various stress.