Culture & Health

Question 1

Importance of Social & Cultural Factors in HC

(4)

Answer 1

• ways people think about health & illness
• behaviors & habits that influence health
• how community perceives you & your actions where you work
• how culture interacts with environment, economy & politics to affect health

Question 2

Social Cultural Model

Answer 2

framework focusing on illness

• personal, social & cultural influences on experience of impairment, pathology & disease

→ preserves complex relationship between person, evironment, community & biology

investigates how people understand their health situations

health & disease = multi-factorial → defined by interactions b/w people & environment

Question 3

Disease

Answer 3

physiological process of pathology

Question 4

Illness

Answer 4

personal, social & cultural influences on experience of impairment, pathology & disease

Question 5

Culture

• used as?
• used to describe?

→ ^ general limitation

Answer 5

often used as label for lifestyles presumed to cluster among certain groups (SES, socially marginal behaviors)

used to describe national identity (ex. culture of violence)

limitation: conceive culture as categorizing variable that is relatively simple & fixed

Question 6

Culture

• define
• important component?

Answer 6

dynamic & adaptive system of meaning → thoughts & behavior shared by group of ppl

• learned, shared & transmitted between generations
• reflected in values, beliefs, norms, communication, family roles

important component = lived experience

• modifies culturally-influenced beliefs & behaviors

Question 7

Influence of Culture on Perceptions of Health

Answer 7

cultures have different systems of health beliefs to explain cause of illness, treatments/cures & who should be involved in process

Question 8

Culture & Health → Health Education & Patient Compliance

(3)

Answer 8

extent to which patients percieve health education to have cultural relevance profoundly affects reception to & willingness to use information provided

cultural issues play major role in patient compliance

cultural characteristics of group may be directly/indirectly with health-related priorities & practices

Question 9

Social Factors that distinguish differences between groups of people in a given society

(6)

Answer 9

Education

Income/Occupation (SES)

Ethnicity/Race

Religion

Political Affiliation

Geographic Region

Question 10

How do Social & Cultural Factors Relate to Health?

Answer 10

differences in social advantages significantly influence disease occurence & life expectancy in a pop’n

• social factors affect disadvantaged groups through material & psychosocial mechanisms
• reproduce historic racial disparities

Question 11

Racism

Answer 11

organized system premised on categorization & ranking of social groups into races

• devalues, disempowers & differentially allocates desirable societial opportunities/resources to racial groups regarded as inferior

Question 12

Racism → Leads to the development of?

Answer 12

• negative attitudes (prejudice) & beliefs (stereotypes) toward
• & differential treatment (discrimination) of

stigmatized racial groups by individuals & social institutions

Question 13

Aversive Racism

Answer 13

lack of explicit racial prejudice but implicit biases that favor one group over another

Question 14

Health Inequities

Answer 14

systematic & avoidable differences in health (or SDOH) between groups

Question 15

Interventions

Answer 15

• awareness of attitudes, perceptions & behavior
• HBM & TPB → to enhance understanding & support
  
  • provide explanation for process that determines health behaviors within different cultures