cultural competency

Theory of racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity that applies to the demographic makeup of a specific place, usually at the scale of an organization, such a school, business, neighborhood, city, or nation

Represents social groups with a shared history, sense of identity, geophgray, and cultural roots which make occur despite rasical difference

Focuses more on a group's connection to a perceived past and culture

arbitrarily assigned symbolic meanings

mental processes, beliefs, knowledge, and values

ASKED

Infant mortality rates are highest in:

Lung cancer incidence is higher in:

Cervical cancer is higher in:

Gay males are more at risk for what health problems compared to straight males?

Five core ares for improvement (as dicated by the National Partnership for Action)

appreciating and accepting differences

deliberately seeking out various world views and explanatory models of disease

cultural knowledge

reducing resistance and defensivness

Lactose Intolerance

Hispanics have a lower incidence for:

Higher incidence of complications of diabetes

Native American health problems

Native Americans have a decreased risk for what?

Vietnamese women have an increased risk for what?

New immigrants have an increased incidence of what?

Cambodians have an increased incidence for what?

Chinese women have an increased risk for what?

highest mortality rates for cancers of breast, lungs, ovary and stomach; leukemia and NHL

ETOH consumption

Diseases of the digestive system

MSS complaints

Moxibustion

Punishment from waaqa for sins a person has comitted

fire-burning, herbal remedies, spell casting, and prayer

Somalian tx for seizures

Somalian tx for stomaches/backaches

Somalian tx for Fever/HA/dizziness/weakness

healing ceremony (reading the Koran, eating special foods, burning incense)

Evil Eye

disease is caused by imbalance between hot and cold principles

hispanic remedy for: HTN and cough

hispanic remedy for: nausea, gas, colic, anxiety

hispanic remedy for: lack of appetite, stomach pains, diarrhea

What does the Evil Eye do to a person in Hispanic culture and how do you tx it?

Native American herbal medication

Foods are classified as hot or cold

Illness is a result of moral retribution by ancestors or deities due to person' misdeeds or negligence

Illness is a result of cosmic disharmony

Cupping, pinching, coining, or rubbing an ill person's skin to treat a range of ailments

Illness and misfortune can be attributed to loss of mana, defines as special power or life force

Four components of health for Pacific Islanders

Storytelling is used as a therapeutic method of teaching and healing

taro (food) holds great mana

Eastern European traditional healing approaches

Eastern European tx of: coughs and congestions

Eastern European tx of: longetivity