Diversity “Providing Culture-Sensitive Healthcare to Hispanic/Latino Patients” A Hispanic patient with a high fever may resist cold compress because their theory of “hot” and “cold” imbalance. They use hot things to cure cold and cold thing to cure the body being “hot”. For instance within the American medical field we use heat foe hot. If you’re running a fever things that makes you sweat it out are better. So the difficulties that the Hispanic patient will bring is simply not following the physician’s
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Assessment My family of origin is composed of a large family unit. All of my family are of Hispanic origins. In which the male is one of the main structure in the family. They are the one that dictates the rule or norms for the family to follow. Everything is driven to follow a hierarchy. The male is the dominant part in the family .The father is the one that discipline. The woman are the Maitra. We are the sole column of our family. We are the care giver and make sure that everything falls in place
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Hispanic and Latino Spirituality Crystal Davila ENG 301 American Ethnic Literature University of Phoenix Julie Kares October 22‚ 2012 Hispanic and Latino Spirituality Throughout our life’s each day we communicate with each other through the exchange of information. Our verbal and nonverbal communication skills are used to process this information. Speaking‚ listening‚ and body language are our ability to understand the meaning of communication that we develop throughout our lives. This
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Hispanic Culture is known for it’s bright colors and festivities‚ but what most people don’t know is that the Hispanic culture has a lot of background and traditions that have been held for years. Like the Day of the Dead‚ Cinco de Mayo‚ and Sanfermines‚ the Quinceñera is very prominent in all Hispanic culture. But‚ these aren’t just celebrations they are symbols. In particular‚ these festive celebrations have many age old traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation. For example
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Assuming the demographic changes about Hispanics are accurate‚ comment on how this shift changes the segmentation in the grocery and the fast food industries. For example‚ if a grocery store that you visit frequently currently has about 15% of its space dedicated to Hispanics should that be changed now in light of the demographic research? Be sure to use key demographic and lifestyle facts and figures about these markets and their consumers. The Hispanic population in the U.S. has been growing for
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Hispanic Activism in 1960’s Living as a Hispanic individual during the 1950’s and 1960’s proved to be difficult. This struggle was widely seen in the rural Hispanics schools. Many students in schools of east LA lived this while many not knowing it. Just going to school‚ not being allowed to speak Spanish‚ and many of whom live with low expectations from their intellectual peers better known as teachers. Only a selected few would be “smart” enough to be eligible to go to college. One of those
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how diabetes is disease that affects most Hispanics/Latinos. It will discuss their statistics against the disease and other health problems it causes. It will tell you how serious of a disease it is but with detection and treatment may save lives. KEYWORDS: diabetes‚ Hispanic/Latino‚ disease‚ detection The Effects That Diabetes Have on Hispanics/Latinos in the United States and the Risks They Face as a Community Research Diabetes in Latino/Hispanics is a major health problem in the United States
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you ever wondered what goes on in the hispanic culture? If so ‚ my research paper will be very informative to the reader with facts and details on that specific topic . I Chose this culture because ‚ I have always been a big fan of learning about Hispanics. Especially on how they manage to make it in America with the big change . The following will be addressing hispanic and latino families ‚ wedding customs ‚ housing ‚ recipes ‚ and holidays. Families Hispanics families varies in many ways ; no two
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As with many nationalities Hispanic applies to a variety of people and as such we as social workers have to be mindful of our perceptions and any biases. In social workers pursuit to provide services it is vital that they have an understanding of their clients’ culture. The Hispanic population is a collection of a multitude of people from several ethnic backgrounds and as they grow the demand for competent/ diverse social workers increases. Social workers are tasked with building a trusting relationship
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The Hispanic Challenge According to Samuel P. Huntington‚ Mexicans and Hispanics are threats to American culture because the Anglo-Protestant culture is what originally started the United States of America‚ not Hispanics. Samuel believes the United States identity is being challenged by the large-scale of Mexican immigration‚ bilingualism‚ and failure to assimilate. Samuel argues that the contiguity encourages immigration and that it has steadily been increasing. The number of immigrants coming
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