Question

Discuss how culture affects health: physical and psychological health, perception of health, and health decision-making. Discuss examples from your own experience, culture, and patient care experience. Cite references within last 10 years to support your assertions

Answer 1

Answer: Culture affects health of the patient or individual as different cultures have their own belief as well as traditional values. Some of them eat vegetarian food wheras some people depends upon the non vegetarian foods. The consumption of food also affects the nutritional value gain or obtained by the body on the daily basis. Those who do not get proper food diet have low nutrition and hence suffers from some of the disease.

Spiritual consideration in the culture is must as many people consider it to be the most emphasizing element where one can heal themselves by relating to the spiritual life. Some of people believe that vaccination is not good for health and hence this lead to increase in the transmission of disease speciall in child.

For example, One of the patient who as African American and was having cardiovascular disease. These group of people have low socioeconomic status and due to which they suffers from poverty. The patient was unable to speak English. So, in this case to avoid the gap of communication it was necessary to provide cultural competence environment to the patient so that the patient can easily discuss their problem.

In one of the case, the patient was not ready for the medications as they were totally dependent on the alternative medicine. So, in this case it was necessary to make them understand the benefits of the treatment that they are going to get.