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This write-up is an analysis of cultural effects on health care using Leininger’s cultural care theory. It will be focusing on an Indian family who reside in the US and using the US health care facilities.
Introduction
Leininger’s cultural care theory is used to explain the relationship between culture and health care delivery. People of different cultures respond differently to health care delivery.
Leininger identified a lack of care and cultural knowledge as being the missing link to nursing’s understanding of the many variations needed in patient care to support healing, compliance and wellness. Related to nursing care called trans-cultural nursing in the 1950s.
Most elderly Indians are illiterate, with only 10% having acquired less than a fourth or fifth-grade education. Most of the religions they identify with originated from India and include Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism. The most popular of them is Hinduism followed by Islam. Traditional healthcare are still quite common among the elderly population and their culture in general, with most of the elderly people seeking treatment from the traditional medical practitioners, as opposed to modern health professionals in private practices or hospitals.
The Indian elderly are likely to have been influenced by various family experiences during their childhood. These rangers from traditional exterminations, disenfranchisement, various broken political treaties and some of the 18th and 19th century forced marches as well as myriads of an individual based dramatic impacts.
The modern health care practices are the most modern practices. Traditional practices, however, continue to be practiced in India. The traditional practice is dated more than 3000 years ago and has been passed through many generations. The conflict
References: Johnson, J.A & Stockpf, C.H (2010). Comparative Health Systems: Global Perspectives. Sadbury Jonesand Barlett Publishers. Leininger, M.M. (1976) Transcultural Healthcare Issues and Conditions. F.A Davis Co.: University of California.