Question

1. Describe the ethnic minority group selected. Describe the current health status of this group. How do race and ethnicity influence health for this group?
2. What are the health disparities that exist for this group? What are the nutritional challenges for this group?
3. Discuss the barriers to health for this group resulting from culture, socioeconomics, education, and sociopolitical factors.
4. What health promotion activities are often practiced by this group?
5. Describe at least one approach using the three levels of health promotion prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary) that is likely to be the most effective in a care plan given the unique needs of the minority group you have selected. Provide an explanation of why it might be the most effective choice.
6. What cultural beliefs or practices must be considered when creating a care plan? What cultural theory or model would be best to support culturally competent health promotion for this population? Why?

Answer 1

ANSWERS :

1. Ethnic minority group is defined as a group of people with different in color, religion, culture, race, nation in the country they live. The identification of people may be shown in a wide variety of ways their language, dress, lifestyle, moral values, economic beliefs of that particular group. All these characters make them vulnerable to neglected diseases, health policies. Latinos are the largest ethnic minority group in United S states. The current health status of Latinos are still having lower rates of health availability resources leading to a highest death rates due to low health services due due their vulnerable group. Mortality and morbidity rates are still on its level where people are suffering from cancers and heart attacks mostly. Based on the race and ethnicity of Latinos the descended groups are abandoned still due to their respective cultural, language, moral beliefs. These backward groups of people are at a risk of affecting to major health problems when compared to Whites of America.

2. Health disparities of Latinos group includes - Cancer, Diabetes mellitus, HIV, Liver diseases and other homicide injuries. Latinos groups are the minority groups who are under nutrition towards food acceptance. Due to low economic status it is evident that this group of people are highly effected with nutritional disorders like malnutrition, protein energy malnutrition, decrease weight, anemia, food starving, nutritional disorders. Lack of nutritious diet for Latinos may lead to high rates of mortality in the United states when compared to the Whites of the country.

3. Barriers to health care services to Latinos includes communication with people of America, mostly language barriers become difficulty in receiving health benefits in the group. Along side their cultural ways of beliefs, thought process all has a great effect on receiving insufficient health care services to Latinos.