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traditional health practices Flashcards

1
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what is a world view

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the way we think the world works, and how we fit into it

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why should we know about traditional practices

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turmeric, religious restriction, refuse surgeries example the whole in the heart problem becasue believe that the scare will be with them forever in t
future lives, johovah witness against blood transfusion

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what factors influened justines health

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justines grandmas - due to traditional pratices, led the mother feeling guilty. the grandma never went to the doctors

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what is lifes Road Map

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Worldview → Life’s Road Map
• Our worldview determines our:
– Decisions
– Our life goals
– What we think will makes happy
– How we spend our money
– How we treat others
• Really difficult to live according to what you dont think
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hidden world view; Canon

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image is everthing: image is more important than substance

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hidden world view;thirst is everything obey your thirst

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follow after your desires

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Worldview evident in healthcare decisions

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May appear indifferent in terminal illness due to
belief in reincarnation
• Belief in faith healing may contradict healthcare
recommendations, example?
• Preservation of life vs. denial of sustaining care
• Practitioner decision rather than family decision

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what is the biomedical world view

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• American (North American) majority worldview
• Conventional system of healthcare is biomedicine
– Based on scientific findings
– Treats disease using latest technologies
• 70 - 90% of sickness managed outside the biomedical
system
– Home remedies
– Popular therapies
– Complementary and alternative medicine
– 11 Billion to 40 Billion in USA (Past decade)
• Biomedical care often in conjunction with these other
systems

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what percentage of people look for help outside the medical system- naturapath, example for a cold…

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70-90%

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why are some ppl hard to reach

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• Healthcare professionals:
– Clients with different cultural background from
the majority:
Hard to reach
• Client with different cultural background:
– Health professionals who refuse to provide
culturally appropriate care:
Hard to reach

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psychosomatic symptoms

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– Symptoms outside the numerical confirmation:

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what is the realtionship to nature

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• Biomedicine adheres to the concept of mastery over
nature
• Health can be measured numerically
– Measurements outside the normal range indicate disease
• Standardized definition of diseases
– Symptoms outside the numerical confirmation:
psychosomatic symptoms
• No consideration of culture or ethnic background

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Personal control vs. Fate

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• Biomedicine: little room for chance
• Based on scientific rationality
• Personal responsibility to make the choices that
prevent diseases
– Food choices
– Physical activity
– Cigarette smoking
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state of being

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• Biomedical view:
– Active participation in cure
– Emphasis on doing, not being
• Other views:
– Client passivity (dont want to change anything just want medications)
– Acceptance of adverse conditions
– Recipients of healing not participants
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role of the individual

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Biomedical Worldview:
– Individuals are a single, biological units not a
member of a family or particular cultural group
– Cure dependent on personal behavior
– Assumption: Person desires privacy (ask father to wait outside)
• Keep medical matters quiet
– Provider-patient partnership

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human equality vs. rank/status rank/stat

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Biomedical Worldview:
– All patients deserve equal access to care
• Cost?
• Location?
• Convenience?
• Other worldviews:
– Service to younger people vs. older ill people
– Wealthy people can purchase care,
• A hierarchy of biomedical professionals
• Inferiority of the client

17
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aging

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• Biomedical view: value on youthfulness
– Postponing aging process
• Plastic surgery
• Technological prolongment
• Alternative interventions for everlasting youth
• Direct conflict with other cultural worldviews
– Honor the wisdom that come

18
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perceptions of time

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• Biomedical view:
– Future-oriented
– Act today, benefit tomorrow
– Long-term prevention strategies
• Diet
– Waiting list for
• Surgery
• Diagnostic methods
• Therapies
• Other
– Focus on urgent present health problems
19
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Degree of formality/directness

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• Biomedical hierarchy
– Informal dialog between patient and provider
• Addressing the client by first name
• Expecting to be addressed with formal titles
• Limited time for a small talk
– Value honest, open communication
• Other cultural worldviews
– Value indirect communication
– Family not the patient, should be told about serious
conditions

20
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Materialism

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• Biomedical view:
– Each disease has certain cause, specific symptoms, expected test
results, and predictable response to treatment.
– An illness isn’t real unless it is clinically significant
– Mind-body duality
– Emotional & social issues: not relevant
– Somatization
– Somatic symptoms; most common presentation of psychological
diseases
• Other cultures:
– Mind and body: unified whole
– Emotional needs of the patients needs to be addressed
– Spiritual intervention

21
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what is heALTH

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• World Health Organization (WHO) “a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not
merely an absence of disease or infirmity.”
Other cultures include natural, spiritual and
supernatural dimensions of health.
• Health may be less dependent on symptoms than on
the ability to accomplish daily responsibilities.

22
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Meaning of health in other cultures

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• Harmony with nature
• Absence of unpleasant environmental
forces
• Dependent on relationship with universe
• Pleasing ancestor spirits
• Mind-body-soul
• Can accomplish daily responsibilities
23
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WHAT ARE THE HEALTH ATTributes

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• Physical
– skin color
– wt maintenance
– hair
• Normal body functions
• Bowel function
• Menstruation
• Undisturbed sleep
• Appropriate energy levels
• Behavioral norms
24
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body image

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Perceptions of wt, health, & beauty differ worldwide
• Thinness is important in the western countries
– Historically associated with poor diet and disease
• Africans, Caribbean Islanders, Filipinos, Mexicans,
Middle Easterners, American Indians, Pacific
Islanders
– Value overweight
• Values change with immigration

25
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Three broad areas of intercultural agreement on

health habits

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Diet
• Sufficient rest
• Cleanliness

26
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what are north american health habits compared to others

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North American health habits
• 3 Meals a Day
• Daily shower/bath
• Alcohol?
• Smoking?
• Fat
• Fiber
• Calcium
• Fresh fruits and vegetables
• Exercise?
• Regular health checkups
Other cultures
• Dressing warmly
• Avoiding going outdoors
with wet hair
• Daily doses of cod liver oil (british)
• Molasses
• Natural amulets
– Camphor bags or garlic cloves
• Faith
– Blessings of the throat
– Wearing holy medals
27
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desease

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Abnormalities or malfunctioning of body organs

and systems

28
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illness

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– Perceptions of and reactions to a physical or

psychological condition

29
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sickness

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– Entire disease-illness process

30
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explanatary models for health and desease

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• Immediate causes
– Bacterial/vital infections, toxins, tumors, injury
• Underlying causes
– Smoking, high cholesterol, glucose intolerance,
nutritional deficiencies
• Ultimate causes
– Hereditary predisposition, environment, obesity

31
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Sickness due to the natural world

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• Environmental
– Weather, allergens
• Wind or bad air
– Common in some cultures – enters body through pores,
orifices
• Humoral
– Disharmony with environment
• Astrology
– Determines fate
• Natural forces
– Lightning, falling rocks
32
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sickness du to the social world

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Sickness due to the social world
• Evil Eye
– Common belief
– Children most vulnerable
– Can project harm on another person
• Conjury
– Illness directed towards a person by one with
imputed powers
• Brujos or brujas
• Sorcerers
• Root or herb doctors
• Voodoo or hoodoo doctors
33
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Sickness due to the supernatural world

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• Caused by the actions of gods, spirits, or
ghosts of ancestors
• Spirit possession
• Wicked spirits
• Soul loss
34
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medical pluralism

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• Consecutive or concurrent use of multiple healthcare
systems
– Complementary & Alternative Medicine 38% of adults,
12%children
• Acculturation is not associated with a rise in the use of
biomedical services
• Widespread in western countries
• Some unconventional therapies are effective
– physiologically or psychologically

35
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cultural imposition

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– The tendency of health care providers to enforce their
beliefs, practices, and values upon clients, because they
believe their ideas are superior

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