Cultural Barriers Among African Americans

“Health is influenced by culture and beliefs” (NRS-429V, 2011, p. 1). In order for the nurse to properly care for the patient, she must know and understand the patient’s culture. “Cultural care is a comprehensive model that includes the assessment of a client’s cultural needs, beliefs, and health care practices” (NRS-429V, 2011, p. 1). It is not enough to just know where the patient lives or where he came from. The nurse must embrace the concept of cultural competence and cultural awareness. This requires not only the awareness of the cultural beliefs and values of their patients, but also

Cultural competency aids in closing the “disparities gap” in health care. ("OMH," 2012, para. 2) In doing so, health professionals and their clients are better able to discuss concerns without cultural differences getting in the way of effective communication and problem solving. Being respectful of and sensitive to the client’s health beliefs, culture, values, and diverse needs can bring positive outcomes within treatment and patient care. After all, is it not the main job of the health care provider to ensure patient trust? Open forms of communication when dealing with client issues can only be provided if the patient is comfortable with his provider and believes his

In order to provide culturally appropriate care, an examination of one's personal views, beliefs, and prejudices must be examined. The first portion of this paper will examine my personal values, beliefs, biases, and prejudices. The remaining paper will analyze the African American culture relating to the Ginger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model cited in Hood (2010). This model uses six key cultural elements that include communication, space, social organization, time, environment, and biological variations. This model provides a systematic approach for assessing culturally diverse clients. I will also discuss an aspect of care that I would

It is know that the patient’s community or cultural group can have significant impact on a person’s health. Therefore, health care practitioners are faced with more challenges that include outside sources and they need to be willing to change their treatments to address the other sources.

This event forever changed the face of the Modern World. The Atlantic Slave Trade was

Abstract: African American people have a high percentage of obesity compared to other ethnic groups. Social determinants of obesity in African American people include low socioeconomic status, limited access to affordable and healthy food, dietary behavior and food culture, lack of nutrition knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, higher exposure of marketing of less nutritious food and limited access to safe places to physically active. This research was done to see how these social determinants affect the obesity rate in African American people. Different researches were reviewed. The effects of above mentioned social determinants were observed and some recommendations are given in order to minimize the health disparities in low income African

Althea Gibson and Barbara Jordan overcame barriers in order to become better. They were born in a bad time for African Americans. African Americans were limited to what they could do, due to segregation. Both ladies inspired other African-American to do new things that they thought was impossible. Althea Gibson was born into a poor family. She really didn't get a good education, but later became a famous tennis player. She was offered to play tennis which she had never played before and soon won a championship. She was the first African American female that played professional tennis. She had won 56 singles and doubles before she finally went pro, She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. Barbara Charline Jordan

The population I will be working with is mostly Hispanic. I have never worked with this population before, however, I am familiar with the population as I have spent some time in East Harlem because of college. Potential cultural barriers I may encounter are language, behavior, and stereotypes. Many of the locals in these neighborhoods speak Spanish whereas I do not. This can cause problems when I have to survey locals and the survey is only in English. They might also prefer taking the survey and sharing personal information with someone of the same race rather than me. Behavior such as body language, eye contact, and personal space can create cultural barriers because they can mean different things for me and the population. For example,

The graduate may encounter several issues unless he/she is well prepared and have studied the country’s culture. As the graduate arrives to Asia he/she will discover the difference in the language. Not everyone will speak the English language, as well as written words and or a map. The graduate wll encounter people staring and pointing, because he/ she will look different; will receive attention from the public (Rodgers).

Sociocultural differences, according to Ellis and Hartley (2008), also affect access. If a patient feels uncomfortable in a health care setting related to their socioeconomic status or they feel their beliefs are not respected, they are hesitant to use services provided (Ellis & Hartley, 2008). Awareness and sensitivity to different lifestyles and beliefs can lessen misconceptions and minimize

D. Gengler (2014) discovered that the children had a different illness and treatment experiences because families who had high cultural health capital direct every treatment their child received from healthcare providers; moreover, they were involved in the medication decisions and interfered successfully in the treatments their child received. On the other hand, she found out those families who had less cultural health

Often providers forget how much someone’s cultural background contributes to their awareness and attitude about diseases such as diabetes. Often a huge consideration that you mentioned in many cultures is that food represents love. In many cultures if you’re not cooking food or eating food that was offered to you, you appear rude or off-putting. It is important to emphasize that food can still be apart of a person’s traditions and cultural context, but fried and unhealthy foods should be exchanged for healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables. Another cultural barrier that inhibits disease awareness and education is language. I believe it’s important for providers to understand the language or at very least the cultural context of

“Culture has an impact on people’s health, healing well belief systems, perceived causes of illness and disease, behaviors of seeking health care, and attitudes towards health care providers” (Edelman, Mandel & Berry, 2014, p. 26). Providing culturally competent care to the Somali population requires understanding of their health patterns and beliefs, which can be discordant with the western medical model. This lack of understanding is often presents challenges for Somali patients and their providers. Interviews of Somali women conducted by Pavlish, Noor & Brandt (2010), generally reflected a lack of preventative medicine, different expectations for treatment from their providers, and overall disappointment with their client/provider interactions. Preventative medicine is not a concept that Somalis are familiar with and therefore, many times Somalis use the E.R. for routine care when they are sick. One explanation for lack of experience

In this paper, the readers will gain knowledge on different cultural beliefs and practices of a forty-eight year old female, African American colleague. During the interview, the cultural beliefs and practices were discussed by the topics relation to health care system. The interview reveals similarities and differences in the subject’s cultural beliefs and practices as well. In addition the writer will express what was learned from the interview and how it could benefit the writer with caring for culturally different patients, in the future.

Firstly, there are several ways through which cultural beliefs and practices hinder the health delivery in the health sector worldwide. Cultural belief has been one of the biggest hindrances to the health sector. However, different cultures have different beliefs about the cause, effect, treatment, and healing (Vaughn, 2009). The extent to which education has had the effect on people has been on the rise despite the cultural practices that also hinder education in their lives. This has also influenced the way modern healthcare system is perceived in the cultural context. A consideration of culture before the examination can help the physician to understand the culture of the patient