Question

Write an essay that examines the role of one aspect of your own cultural identity that influences how you navigate the world, including potential interactions in the medical field. Remember that cultural identity can refer to the color of your skin or your country of origin as well as to concepts related to gender, religion, or sexual orientation. What aspects of your personality have been influenced by your racial, ethnic, social, geographic, generational, economic, professional, or political affiliation? Have you "chosen" this culture? Or has it "chosen" you? How do the attitudes and assumptions associated with this cultural identity impact your behavior? Prepare a reflective essay that considers the answers to these questions in context with both daily life and healthcare, providing clear examples. The finished essay must include...Additionally, both an example from the weekly reading and one additional source of research (a formal source discussing culture in society) is required. This will be integrated into your essay to further your ideas and support your points. This research will be cited in APA format.

Answer 1

Culture is differ in styles of communication , in the meaning of words and gestures , Health literacy requrires communication and mutal understanding beteen patients and their families a health care providers and staff . Culture and health literacy both influences the content and outcomes of health care encounters.A definition of Health literacy that does not recognize the potential effect of cultural difference on the communication and understanding of health information would miss much of the deepermeaning and purpose of literacy for people.

Cultere provides a context through which meaning is gained from information and provides the purpose by which people come to understand their healtth status and comprehened option for diagnosis and treatments . A conceptual understand the interconnection between culture and literacy through the idea of cultural literacy can provide thr insights into the   deeper meanings of how diverse the populations in the United States come to known , comprehened and make informed decisions based on valid data regarding the heath .

Culture is the shared ideas , meaning and the values acquired by individual as members of society . It is socially learned , not genetically transmitted and often influences us unconsiousllly . Human beings learn through social means- through interaction with others as well as through the products of culture such as books and television .Reliance on tools and symbolic resources , notably language , is a hallmark of culture.Language is a central of a social life . and mediates the acquisition of much cultural knowledge . Difference in language and underlying concets may lead to problems with health related comunication intio it , for example , translating the word 'chemotherapy" into the Navajo language might require pages of text. since the Navajo language has no word or concept for chemotherapy , the translation must start with the idea of cancer , and include what the person might experence as aresultr of chemotherapy .