Question

You will research that culture or religion (a minimum of 2 reliable and/or scholarly sources are required) and tell me about that culture/religion. You will then take the research you have done and apply it to nursing. how it applies to heathcare and nursing Cultures or Religions to choose from:-

i chose buddhism

food preferences of the culture and how this could impact healthcare, healthcare/healing beliefs and how they could impact healthcare and family dynamics and how this could impact healthcare

Answer 1

The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.Reliability culture is a term that’s thrown around a lot in the world of asset management. It refers to the overall culture shift that is required for an organization to fully understand the big picture when it comes to asset reliability the probability that an asset will be able to work failure free for a period of time within normal operating conditions.
According to Wesner, there are three things to understand in order to wrap your head around what a reliability focused culture entails:

1) Operators are the asset owners in a facility :- Many leaders believe that assets are owned by the maintenance team at their facility. Wesner argues that the operations team actually owns the assets.Operators interact with equipment day in and day out, meaning they understand the assets better than anyone. Acknowledging this fact is the first piece of understanding reliability culture.

2) Maintenance folks operate as on site specialists :- The maintenance team’s role is to ensure an asset is available to perform its designated purpose at its designated rate, and that the asset is available for operations in order to meet their production needs.

The influence of culture on health is vast. It affects perceptions of health, illness and death, beliefs about causes of disease, approaches to health promotion, how illness and pain are experienced and expressed, where patients seek help, and the types of treatment patients prefer.Culture is a pattern of ideas, customs and behaviours shared by a particular people or society. It is constantly evolving.The speed of cultural evolution varies. It increases when a group migrates to and incorporates components of a new culture into their culture of origin.Children often struggle with being between cultures balancing the old and the new. They essentially belong to both, whereas their parents often belong predominantly to the old culture.One way of thinking about cultures is whether they are primarily collectivist or individualist. Knowing the difference can help health professionals with diagnosis and with tailoring a treatment plan that includes a larger or smaller group.The influence of culture on health is vast. It affects perceptions of health, illness and death, beliefs about causes of disease, approaches to health promotion, how illness and pain are experienced and expressed, where patients seek help, and the types of treatment patients prefer. Both health professionals and patients are influenced by their respective cultures. Canada’s health system has been shaped by the mainstream beliefs of historically dominant cultures.Cultural bias may result in very different health related preferences and perceptions. Being aware of and negotiating such differences are skills known as cultural competence. This perspective allows care providers to ask about various beliefs or sources of care specifically, and to incorporate new awareness into diagnosis and treatment planning.Demonstrating awareness of a patient’s culture can promote trust, better health care, lead to higher rates of acceptance of diagnoses and improve treatment adherence.
Culture is the patterns of ideas,customs and behaviours shared by a particular people or society. These patterns identify members as part of a group and distinguish members from other groups. Culture may include all or a subset of the following characteristics:

Given the number of possible factors influencing any culture, there is naturally great diversity within any cultural group. Generalizing specific characteristics of one culture can be helpful, but be careful not to over generalize.Ethnicity,language,religion and spiritual beliefs,gender,socio-economic class,age,sexual orientation,geographic origin,group history,education,upbringing,life experience.Culture is dynamic and evolving,learned and passed on through generations,shared among those who agree on the way they name and understand reality,often identified symbolically, through language, dress, music and behaviours, and integrated into all aspects of an individual's life.
Many Buddhists follow a lacto vegetarian diet, avoid alcohol and certain vegetables, and practice fasting from noon to sunrise the following day. That said, the diet is flexible, no matter if you're a lay follower of Buddhism or wish to practice only certain aspects of the religion.Buddhists refrain from any wrong thoughts or actions like killing, because it causes suffering and bad karma. This means that they also do not eat any meat or fruit from trees.Buddhist monks and nuns do not buy their food because they are not allowed to touch any sort of money.Five ethical teachings govern how Buddhists live.One of the teachings prohibits taking the life of any person or animal. Many Buddhists interpret this to mean that you should not consume animals, as doing so would require killing.Buddhists with this interpretation usually follow a lacto-vegetarian diet. This means they consume dairy products but exclude eggs, poultry, fish, and meat from their diet.On the other hand, other Buddhists consume meat and other animal products, as long as the animals aren't slaughtered specifically for them.Nonetheless, most dishes considered Buddhist are vegetarian, despite not all traditions requiring lay followers of Buddhism to follow this diet .
Alcohol and other restrictions :-
Another ethical teaching of Buddhism prohibits intoxication from alcohol given that it clouds the mind and can lead you to break other religious rules.Still, lay followers of the religion often disregard this teaching, as some traditional ceremonies incorporate alcohol.Aside from alcohol, some Buddhists avoid consuming strong smelling plants, specifically garlic, onion, chives, leeks, and shallots, as these vegetables are thought to increase sexual desire when eaten cooked and anger when eaten raw.

Fasting :- Fasting refers to abstaining from all or certain types of foods or drinks.The practice specifically intermittent fasting is becoming increasingly popular for weight loss, but it’s also often done for religious purposes.Buddhists are expected to abstain from food from noon until the dawn of the following day as a way to practice self control.However, as with the exclusion of meat and alcohol, not all Buddhists or lay followers of the religion fast.
Benefits Of Buddhist Diet :- A Buddhist diet follows a primarily plant based approach.A plant based diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole grains, legumes, and beans, but it may also include some animal products.This diet provides important compounds, such as antioxidants, phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals, and fiber, which have been associated with a decreased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer.Aside from these health benefits, following a plant based or vegetarian diet may also benefit your waistline.One study demonstrated that Buddhists who followed a vegetarian diet for 11–34 years had less body fat than those who followed the diet for 5–10 years and even less body fat than those who followed it for 3–4 years.
Cultural health beliefs affect how people think and feel about their health and health problems, when and from whom they seek health care, and how they respond to recommendations for lifestyle change, health care interventions, and treatment adherence.Food habits are one of the most complex aspects of human behavior, being determined by multiple motives and directed and controlled by multiple stimuli.Food acceptance is a complex reaction influenced by biochemical, physiological, psychological, social and educational factors. Metabolic conditions play an important role. Age, sex and mental state are factors of importance. People differ greatly in their sensory response to foods. The likes and dislikes of the individual with respect to food move in a framework of race, tradition, economic status and environmental conditions.For most people food is cultural, not nutritional. A plant or animal may be considered edible in one society and inedible in another. Probably one of the most important things to remember in connection with the cultural factors involved in food habits is that there are many combination of food which will give same nutritional results.Culture consist of values, attitudes, habits and customs, acquired by learning which starts with the earliest experiences of childhood, much of which is not deliberately taught by anyone and which so thoroughly internalized that it is unconscious but goes deep.Food habits are among the oldest and most deeply entrenched aspects of many cultures and cannot, therefore, be easily changed, or if forcibly changed, can produce a series of unexpected and unwelcome reactions. Food and food habits as a basic part of culture serve as a focus of emotional association, a channel of love, discrimination and disapproval and usually have symbolic references. The sharing of food symbolizes a high degree of social intimacy and acceptance.In many cultures food has a social or ceremonial role. Certain foods are highly prized; others are reserved for special holidays or religious feasts; still others are a mark of social position. There are cultural classifications of food such as inedible, edible by animals, edible by human beings but not by ones own kind of human being, edible by human being such as self, edible by self. In different cultures, certain foods are considered heavy, some are light some as foods for strength; some as luxury, etc.The challenge to health care provider is to be culturally adaptable, to display cross cultural communication skills, to remain aware of nonverbal cues that are culturally motives, and to move toward a trusting interpersonal relationship as quickly as possible.John Cassel (1957) had illustrated in his review, that it is possible to derive some guiding principles indicating the significance of social and cultural factors to health programs in general. Health workers should have an intimate detailed knowledge of the peoples beliefs, attitudes, knowledge and behavior before attempting to introduce any innovation into an area.The second principle, which is usually more difficult to apply, is that the psychologic and social functions of these practices, beliefs, and attitudes need to be evaluated. As stated by Benjamin Paul, It is relatively easy to perceive that others have different customs and beliefs, especially if they are odd or curious.It is generally more difficult to perceive the pattern or system into which these customs or beliefs fit.It is in this area of determining the pattern or system into which these customs or beliefs fit those social scientists can probably make their greatest contribution to health programs.This is the knowledge that will help to determine why certain practices exist, how difficult it will be to change them, and give indications of the techniques that can be expected to be most helpful.A third principle that should be emphasized was unfortunately not well illustrated in the example but is of fundamental importance.The sub cultural groups must be carefully defined, as programs based on premises, true for one group, will not necessarily be successful in a neighboring group.This also is an area in which we as health workers can receive invaluable assistance from social scientists.Anne Burgess (1961) stated that health assistants with some training in the principles of anthropology and education are indeed an innovation and it appears an effective one. Where nutrition education has proved disappointing in the past, could it be that retention of customs has been as turbulent a thing as that of the villagers.Nelson Freimer et al (1983).Cultural variation may play an important role in human nutrition and must be considered in either clinical or public health intervention particularly in areas with large immigrant populations.Acculturative and environmental change influences the food habits and health of transitional groups.Nutritional assessment may be complicated by cultural variation.The relationship between ethnicity and nutrition may be of evolutionary significance. Food beliefs may have beneficial or detrimental effects on health status.The study of acculturating populations may elucidate the pathogenesis of nutrition related chronic diseases. Appreciation of the interaction of culture and nutrition may be of benefit to physicians and nutritionists in clinical practice and to those concerned with the prevention of nutrition related chronic diseases.
Christine M. Olson (1989) had stated that childhood nutrition education is imperative in health promotion and disease prevention. The Report concludes that overconsumption of certain dietary components is now a major concern for Americans.While many food factors are involved, chief among them is the disproportionate consumption of foods high in fat, often at the expense of foods high in complex carbohydrates and fiber that may be more conducive to health.Two widely recommended strategies for incorporating nutrition education directed toward children and youth into health promotion and disease prevention efforts are school based nutrition education and the integration of nutritional care into health care. School based nutrition education programs targeted toward very specific eating behaviors are showing very promising results in regard to behavior and attitude change of children and adolescents. Substantial changes in health care providers attitudes and practices and in the funding and financing of health care will be needed if nutrition education is to be delivered in the context of routine health care.Puline M Adair, Cynthia M Pine et al (2004) had conducted a study on familial and cultural perceptions and beliefs of oral hygiene and dietary practices among ethnically and socio-economically diverse groups.Factor analysis identified those attitudes, towards tooth brushing, sugar snacking and childhood caries.Attitudes were significantly different in families from deprived and non deprived backgrounds and in families of children with and without caries. Parents perception of their ability to control their childrens tooth brushing and sugar snacking habits were the most significant predictors of whether or not favorable habits were reported. Some differences were found by site and ethnic group.This study supports the hypothesis that parental attitudes significantly has an impact on the establishment of habits favorable to oral health.An appreciation of the impact of cultural and ethnic diversity is important in understanding how parental attitudes to oral health vary. Further research should examine in a prospective intervention whether enhancing parenting skills is an effective route to preventing childhood caries.Abdul Arif Khan et al (2008) had conducted a study on prevalence of dental caries among the population of Gwalior (India) in relation of different associated factors.They found that incidence of dental caries was higher in female. High number of dental caries patients was observed among vegetarian population.21-30 year age group was found to be most infected with dental caries.This study helpful to analyze respective role of different dietary factors including protein rich diet, age, gender etc.On the prevalence of dental caries, which can be helpful to counteract the potential increase in the cases of dental caries and to design and plan preventive strategies for the persons at greatest risk.Factors influencing standards of nutrition Soil management.As an omnivorous animal, man obtains his food from both animal and vegetable sources.Basically, however, the nutritive value of his diet is determined by the nutrients present in the soil upon which his food is grown.The nutritive elements in the soil and the fertility of the soil depend not only on its geologic structure but also on the manner in which the soil is conserved and cultivated. In many underdeveloped countries the traditional horticultural and agricultural practices are primitive, but they do maintain the fertility of the soil. In some countries, however, an increase in the population and industrialization has encouraged the growth of a cash-crop economy, the abandonment of customary practices of soil conservation, and the impoverishment of the soil. These changes can be reflected in deterioration in the health of both animals and man.In Africa, for example, the prevalence of Kwashiorkor is higher in areas with a cash-crop economy than in less sophisticated areas where mixed farming is still practiced.