Cultural Views on Health Care There are many types of people who are facing issues with adapting to everyday life. In the case of humanity‚ we change our habits and solutions to meet the necessities in order to survive. Since all of humanity is related in one way or another‚ it is certain that no culture is the same as another. This culture that is learned is important to health care professionals because the people that belong to one culture may not share the same aspects as another on health
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Should We Pray About It: Mental Health in the Black Community Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience‚ particularly those of the African American community to seek mental health services when combating traumatic experiences. Central Idea: African Americans are victims of mental enslavement due to the urban community’s taboos and stigmas about mental health and the reliability of family‚ spirituality‚ and community for salvation. Introduction I. Mental health refer to an individual’s psychological
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biggest barriers to accessing mental health services. The media and Hollywood movies have cultivated stigma by falsely representing people with mental health disorders. For example‚ movies often portray characters with mental health problems in institutions smoking incessantly‚ with volatile outbreaks‚ and a Thorazine shuffle. In addition‚ when a mass shooting occurs the media declares the perpetrator mentally ill. For this reason‚ the misconceptions surrounding mental illness need fixing. The discrimination
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Cultural Views on Health HCA/230 Communication Skills for the Health Care Professional (AXIA) Cultural Views on Health The world is different in many ways and one of the ways is the difference in culture. For instance in Malawi young women get AIDS more prevalently than men because they are not allowed to ask for the use of protection (Hawthorne‚ 2003). A set of practices‚ rules‚ and beliefs and practices that are shared by a group of people is referred to as being culture. The
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MHF Module: Investing In Mental Health Mental Health Worksheet Part 1 Research mental health in a a country other than the United States. An example of a mental heath problem is provided below. ENGLAND The population of England is 52‚234‚000 and the sex ratio (men per hundred women) is 97 (Office of National Statistics‚ UK‚ 2011). The proportion of the population under the age of 18 years is 22% and the proportion above age 60 is 22% (Office of National Statistics‚ UK‚ 2011). The United Kingdom
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have their religion‚ culture‚ and life choices. Delivering health advice and not knowing much about a patient’s cultural background will influence how the patient may perceive the nurses’ advice. The article that I did my research on was published in 2011‚ by Perez-Avila‚ Sobralske and Katz; the name of the article is “No Comprendo: Practice Considerations When Caring for Latinos With Limited English Proficiency in the United States Health Care System”. In the United States‚ Hispanics form the largest
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the internal nature of mental health as well as the negative stigma attached to those who suffer with mental health issues‚ the public may not realize how serious the problem really is. Over one in every five children and adolescents suffers from some kind of mental health disorder (Taras & Young). This is an astounding amount of children who affected by these issues. Given the significant effects these disorders can have on people‚ it is necessary that those with mental health issues receive proper
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Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 is legislation in the United States that required the annual caps and lifetime maximum benefits for mental health insurance to be equal to those for other forms of health insurance. The main goal of this act was to create equal coverage between medical and surgical services and mental healthcare services. The principle beneficiaries of the Mental Health Parity Act would be persons with the most severe‚ persistent and disabling
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Grief Counseling Axia College of University of Phoenix Grief is defined as a type of emotional or mental suffering from a loss‚ sorrow‚ or regret (Dictionary.com‚ LLC‚ 2010). Grief affects people of all ages‚ races‚ and sexes around the world. Approximately‚ 36% of the world’s population does or has suffered from grief and only a mere 10% of these people will seek out help (Theravive‚ 2009). Once a person is suffering from grief it is important to receive treatment. All too often‚ people ignore
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Cultural Diversity in Health Care Heritage Assessment Tool This tool is a helpful way to evaluate a person as a whole because it reflects on the individual’s cultural background and ethnicity. The questions were focused on how the individual grew up as a child; progressing to adulthood and the age he/she came to the United States. This is a very important question to incorporate in the study matter because it shows how long the individual practiced the kind of culture that he/ she was in. Closeness
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