culture in healthcare questions
What is culture? Give some examples of aspects of culture that vary across different societies.
- Why is it important to access the relationship between culture and health in specific societies by the extent to which cultural practices promote or discourage good physical and mental health?
- Name three cultural practices that are health promoting. Name three cultural practices that are harmful to health.
- How does culture relate to people’s perceptions of illness? Why would some cultures regard some illnesses as normal?
- What might low-income people in traditional societies see as possible cause of illness?
- What is the difference between illness and disease?
- When an infant is ill in a traditional society in a low-income country, from whom and in what order are the parents likely to seek help?
- Why would members of a community seek treatment for illness from traditional healers?
- If you wanted to encourage the large-scale adoption of a healthy behavior, such as giving up cigarette smoking, what information would you want to know as you plan your effort?
- Why are social assessments important? If they are done well, what gains would they produce that might not come if there were no such assessment?
