Cultural Practice : The Case Of Women 's Reproductive Illness

Overall, the health of Americans has improved over the past several decades. However, there is still an inconsistency between the health of various racial groups, minorities, and Caucasians (Cook, Kosoko-Lasaki, & O'Brien, R., 2005). Bakullari et al. (2014) report that specific research related to patient safety and racial and ethnic differences in HAIs is also lacking. As a result of these discrepancies, Bakullari et al. (2014) implemented a study to determine the rate and occurrence of HAIs in six specific racial/ethnic groups (white non-Hispanic, black non-Hispanic, Asian, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and other). What they found was that Hispanic and Asian populations had a significantly higher occurrence of HAIs than white non-Hispanic populations (Bakullari et al., 2014).

I hope that with my personal beliefs and culture that I will be able to give exceptional care to those whose cultures differ from my own. I am very much a people pleaser and I would try my best to keep everyone happy and comfortable. I think that this comes from my culture of being a millennial. While I am not necessarily knowledgeable about other culture’s practices, rituals, and beliefs, I would try my best to make sure that my patients were taken care of in a manner that protects their health and respects their culture, religion, or race.

Wilson further argues that the need of understanding the impacts of cultural forces, because it affects how individuals cultural traits that interpret their views and beliefs. Professor Thompson shares the example of how women continually having children out of wedlock, which is evidence of how their cultural impacts how they interpret their reality. These patterns will continue to happen with communities if the cultural, in which they live in, does not change.

The idea of childbirth has been viewed in three peculiar ways: a social natural occurrence, as a passage to an early death, and in present times a medical procedure needed when having children. In the seventieth and eighteenth century childbirth was seen as a social celebration conducted by midwives, while in the nineteenth century fear of death arose due to an increase of maternal mortality rates. This time period also served as a transition time between the elimination of the midwife and the emergence of the physician. The transition was due to attitude changes and knowledge understanding. During the twentieth century, medical knowledge expanded and thus the idea of childbirth was medicalized into a medical procedure needed to have healthy children. Childbirth once seen as a natural phenomenon was now an event that needed medical attention by health facilitators at institutions of health. The ideas around childbirth developed based on the knowledge, cultural setting, mortality rates, and professionals available at the time. Based on these ideas it is easy to see how social and behavioral aspects influenced childbirth throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, ninetieth and twentieth centuries. In addition, the communities’ views on childbirth were influenced by the development of public health infrastructure, public health policy advancement and how well public officials were able to disseminate information.

Dudgeon and Inhorn suggest that men both directly and indirectly affect women’s reproductive health outcomes. Although, the article reflects on reproductive health outcomes of women, men’s reproductive health was not addressed. Although not mentioned, women do influence men’s reproductive health, for example through the encouragement of STI/prostate screening and testing. Many Western women are encouraged to get there partners tested in

In this paper I’m going to introduce to you a person who was born in Russia, lived for a short period of time in Romania and now, he is living in the United States. His name is Eugen and me and my husband we met him here, in North Carolina. I will try to highlight what are his values regarding health and illness and how these imply a person and what kind of health practice is unique in Eugen's culture or at least not so popular in the world. I will try to explain how this interview helped me to better understand how to approach my patients, especially those who are coming from different cultures.

Cultures I identify with are I am a female, Slovenian, German, Catholic individual. However, the main culture I identify with is the nursing culture. It’s essential we as nurses, focus on holistic care. This assignment assisted me in completing that; as I was able to learn about my patient’s background and the culture that they grew up in.

The AMA made the reproductive rights of women into a political catastrophe. Utilizing legislative tactics, they pushed out the healers, midwives, and herbalists from the scene. Also, the AMA and the government sought a decrease in immoral activities if contraceptives were allowed to stand. In turn, they wanted them banned. In this paper, we will talk about all of the intricacies that went into the topic of women’s reproductive solutions in the Nineteenth Century. Women, Men, and the others that ran the countries overseeing their citizens all had specific agendas that sought to solve the problems faced by conception.

a system that encourages and supports a self-perpetuating alcohol-induced health issue where each generation produces another generation that is prone to alcohol abuse. Understanding the cultural context specific to each individual patient will help a healthcare provider understand the mechanisms and systems at play that support the alcoholic behaviors of the patient. As a result, this will help in the establishment and coming up with the best approach to address the health concern and the future of the patient in the community (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2009; Duran and Duran, 1995).

The intensity of pain that women encounter during childbirth has been a topic in many studies in society since the beginning of time. However, although many research have been done it has not yet been determined whether the severity of the maternal labor pain endured by women was, or continues to be a product of nature or nurture. In the 1989 article titled “Cultural and Educational Influences on Pain of Childbirth” authors Matisyohu Weisenberg PhD and Zahava Caspi MS investigated how the social and cultural (or sociocultural) and the educational background of a women can indeed affect their behavior when enduring the severe pain of childbirth, their ability to cope and the way they expressed it. The study that was being investigated, is

Today when people move across continents with the help of technology their culture and heritage moves along with them. Almost each and every continent is populated with people from different nations who have diverse traditions and cultures. Thus knowledge of health traditions and culture plays a vital role in nursing. People from different cultures have a unique view on health and illness. Culture-specific care is a vital skill to the modern nurse, as the United States continues to consist of many immigrants who have become assimilated into one culture. I interviewed three families of different cultures: - Indian (my culture), Hispanic and Chinese. Let us see the differences in health traditions between these cultures.

This type of health care system always be neglected although it plays an important role in the system. The popular sector is the lay, non-professional, non-specialist domain of society, where the ill-health is the first recognized and defined and health care activities are initiated (Kleinman, 1980). The family is the main field of health care for this sector where the patient is treated by self-medication and then following advices from relatives, friends or other persons that are closed to the patient. Self-treatement focus on traditional remedies and treatments done based upon the beliefs of the community on how to take care of the health. Such beliefs differents in every culture and society. All people in the community can be the source of asking advice, sharing experience and knowledge with each other , especially within the family.

One of the key learning from this topic is the relation between financial independence/education and women’s sexual and reproductive health. And the way social, economic, demographic, and community characteristics affect women’s ability to acquire information, and their ability to act and decide on their reproductive health and their overall health. I gained important understanding on social determinants of women’s health that is related to gender norms, that places women as inferior in many part of the world leading to health, social, and economic issues that men do not face. Coming from developing country the impact of social determinants on women’s health is a big issue, and understanding the disparities that even exist in developed countries from this course opened, my eyes on how disadvantaged women are worldwide economically and socially.

Artificial reproductive technology (ART) is defined as procedures which stimulate a woman 's ovaries to produce eggs, the eggs are then removed, combined with sperm, and then returned to a woman 's body (Bell, 2016). ART is becoming more and more popular throughout that globe. This method of conceiving children gives women who may be struggling with infertility options that were not possible before the advent of such methods. ART is relevant to the sociological definition of global health because it is evidence of the fact that our world has become interdependent especially when it comes to medical technology. However with ART comes the notion of the culture of disguise and in many countries this is an integral part of artificial reproductive technology process. With that being said, sociologists should look to study and understand the culture of disguise in ART as it pertains to global health and it shapes interactions between people and the society they live in.

Social illness is an outcome of a negative way of social life. It really can change and control the mind-set of the people where this illness is not easily treated. It a concern to countries such as Malaysia, Japan and other countries including Brunei Darussalam as this social illness kept growing. It was unknown that when this phenomenon had started. It becomes more noticeable in the 20th century. Social illness also arises in Brunei Darussalam though it is not at a high rate even so it still does exist. So, what are the factors that contribute to social illness in Brunei Darussalam? This essay will discuss about the factors of social illness in Brunei which is to be more in the nature social behavior, homosexuality and pregnancy outside marriage.