Question

1.What are the commonalities between the patient’s cultural health practices and the dominant cultural practices seen in the region?

2.What are the observed DIFFERENCES between the patient’s cultural health practices and the dominant cultural practices seen in the region?

3.Economics impacting health:

4.Religious beliefs related to health:

Answer 1

1,In US the influence of culture on health is wide range,it affects the understanding of illness,health and death, it also influence the cause of disease,how illness and suffering are expierienced,cause of disease, where the client is seek help and type of the medical management patient prefer,like some religions practice female circumcission due to their cultural belief but it causes serious problems in the victim both physically and emotionally,

2, In some communities fast for 18 hours,that will be a cultural practice for them and mandatory for them, if the patient is suffering from diabetis mellitus or gastric ulcers it will adversly affects the treatment and the condition may worse, so the patient cultural health practices and the dominant culltural practices influences the treament.

3,In the society lower income and great poverty have high mortality and morbidity rate,the wealth of the nation help to the improvement of the health care services for the people, due to the economic factors the mortality rate and the morbidity rate in the developing and developed contries are higher compared with the developed contries.

4,In some religions beliefs cause the clients to avoid to take some medical procedures and care like life saving procedurs like blood transfusion, and organ transplantation they choose faith instead of treament, faith if good if we use it in a proper manner, life is more valued than religion and religios belief.

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