Mexican American Cultural Approaches to Health Mexican American‚ or Latino‚ traditional views on health and healing practices are influenced by several other cultures that they have historically had some kind of contact with‚ such as the Spanish colonizers‚ indigenous Indian populations‚ and Western medical practitioners. This varied background accounts for their holistic healing methods and their belief that good health stems from internal balance‚ a clear conscience‚ and a strong spiritual relationship
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Heritage Assessment In our day to day job as nurses‚ we come across patients from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. It is our duty to make them feel at ease with the care they are receiving and to be able to do so‚ it is imperative that nurses become culturally competent by understanding how the patients’ culture influences their views on health protection‚ maintenance and restoration. Culture is a pattern of behavior and values shared by an ethnic group (Winkleman‚ 2001). The Heritage
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Cultural Diversity in the Medical Field Patient Relations Abstract The United States is a nation of immigrants; they have virtually every culture of the world within its borders. Due to this reason‚ there must be a certain level of cultural competency within its people. A comparison and contrast will be made to compare the Hispanic cultural views on medical care to the American cultural views toward medical care. I chose to explore Hispanic culture because of my background but most importantly
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Blending of Cultures Introduction Cultures are developed over centuries and are often the blend of many traditions that have been passed down through the years. There is quote from the article “Vanishing Voices” by Russ Rymer that states: “when small communities abandon their languages and switch to English or Spanish‚ there is a massive disruption in the transfer of traditional knowledge across generations” (Rymer). What is the cause of this abandonment of languages? Looking specifically at the
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times‚ then‚ plants and herbals have been an important part of traditional healing practices. Many cultures have a long history of herbal medicine use: the Chinese; Ayurveda‚ a holistic system that originated in the Vedic civilization of India; Curanderismo‚ a Mexican-American healing tradition; and western herbalism. Many botanical compounds were the basis of medical pharmacotherapeutics in the United States as recently as the 1930s. The World Health Organization estimates that up to 80 percent of
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What is cultural competence? What is culturally competent care? These are very important questions to consider. Nurses are exposed to diverse cultures constantly in today ’s society and need to be able to provide appropriate care while still respecting a patient ’s cultural background. Cultural competence in nurses is a combination of culturally congruent behaviors‚ practice attitudes‚ structures and policies that allow nurses to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. Cultural competence
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Catherine Anne Heywood October 12‚ 2012 Impact of Culture on Health STUDY GUIDE: EXAM 1 Chapter 2 – The Starting Point: Defining Culture‚ Defining Health * What do we mean by culture? * Culture is one of those concepts that most people seem to intuitively grasp‚ yet cannot define clearly. * The process of categorizing groups of people as others (other than one’s own group) is a common feature of the way human beings think‚ and it forms a part of the whole phenomenon
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The factors that can affect an individual’s views on death and dying and include social factors‚ cultural‚ religious and spirit I believe one’s religion plays a big part. Many suicide bombers believe that if they fight the religious war and become a hero through death they will get many virgins as a reward in the afterlife. Therefore they don’t mind killing themselves. Most people view the idea of death through the glasses of their trained religion teachings. Death is a personal event that
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