module 4

Question 1

role of culture in health care

Answer 1

impact is significant, influences how illness is perceived and experienced, what symptoms are reported, what remedies are sought, who is consulted in the process

Question 2

race vs. ethnicity

Answer 2

race= human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics
ethnicity= place of history, language, and culture in the construction of identity

Question 3

what is marginalization

Answer 3

confining people to an outer limit or edge and thus view them as somehow different from the norm

Question 4

what is a minority

Answer 4

minority group status= not about the mathematical percentage of the population, it is about being disadvantaged, underprivileged and discriminated against

Question 5

visible minority=

Answer 5

persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-caucasian or non-white in colour

Question 6

define culture=

Answer 6

• “the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group [which] encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs”

Question 7

hatrick and varcoe (2015) define culture as contextual… meaning?

Answer 7

culture is most commonly defined as the values, beliefs, attitudes and practices of particular groups

• these definitions of culture arise from multiple contexts
• different people experience and embody different contexts
• encompasses differences in experience