Heritage Assessment and Cultural Project **********
Grand Canyon University: NRS- 429V (0101)
February 27, 2014
Heritage Assessment The Heritage Assessment Tool can be used as a tool to assess health maintenance, protection, and restoration of individual cultural. This assessment tool helps explore and try to meet the needs of different patient populations to provide quality care among cultures. The purpose of this essay is to explore the finding of the evaluation from using the Heritage assessment tool between American, (European decent, white), Asian, and Middle Eastern Indian Cultured families. .
The Evaluation tool The Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) , is a check list used to help gain knowledge of
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“Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health,” (The WHO,2005). Health promotion is the process of enabling people to have control over and improve their health. It examines the importance of including ethnic and cultural factors to be incorporated in health. The goal of universal education cannot be achieved while the health needs of all remain unmet. Health protection explains how people maintain their health on a daily basis.
Common Health Traditions In American culture, that sick family member often deals with the illness on their own. They may not even mention it to other family members. In the Asian culture if a family member is ill, immediate family members take on the role of the person to help them heal. In the hospital, family members bring outside food that they believe will help restore the Yin and Yang balance of the ill family member (Wong, 2012). The Chinese culture believes that health maintenance requires maintained balance. For example, they believe that a person’s ‘hot' energy can be countered by cooling remedies, and vice versa. These values are deeply ingrained in Chinese culture In the Middle Eastern culture. While the Middle Eastern Indian believes after a mother gives birth, she should not drink or eat cold items. She should only have warm, to maintain balance. The cold is also believed to cause blood clots,
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Ottawa Charter defined health promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to
The concept of health promotion has emerged with the increasing realisation in society that our health is one of our most valuable personal assets, as well as an asset for society (Crafter, 1997). The Health Promotion Agency (2008) describes health promotion as a process enabling people to
The Heritage Assessment Tool can be adopted as a dependable tool to gauge, health maintenance, restoration and safeguard of personal, cultural beliefs. The adoption of health assessment tool helps meet the prerequisites of diverse patient populations to offer quality all-inclusive care. The following paper reviews the assessment of three culturally dissimilar families, and demonstrate how a nurse would continue with health promotion centred on the variances in health traditions between the three cultures. The three cultures include Hispanic culture, Native American Indian culture and White American culture. The objectives of this essay are
Health Promotion This is the process of allowing people to have more control over their health as this will help improve their health and well-being. It focuses on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and interventions. Health promotion is how health is shown for example to challenge obesity change 4 life is used so people can have a guidance on how to make their lifestyle healthier. It also shows that health promotion is aimed at individuals whose health is at risk from any diseases from lifestyle factors, which lets individuals take control over their health. By being able to have control over their health it shows individuals what may have happened if nothing was done of it
Health promotion is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the process which helps people take control over the determining factors of their health which in turn will help to improve their health. With multiple determining factors of health, health promotion means working between the community and health care professionals to effectively educating the Hispanics (Journal of Cultural Diversity, 2012). “Health promotion is carried out by and with people, not on or to people” (Journal of Cultural Diversity, 2012). We as educators must have respect and not discriminate against the Hispanic population but work with them to teach them how to live healthier lives. Healthy People 2020 states that it is their dream to have a culture where all people live long, healthy lives. Health promotion means addressing the health disparities of the Hispanics so they can experience positive health
We will consider three families of differing cultural heritage, and explore how each of these cultures influences perceptions of health care.
The Heritage Assessment Tool can be used as as a reliable tool to assess, health maintenance, protection and restoration of individual cultural beliefs. This evaluation helps meet the needs of different patient populations to provide quality holistic care. The purpose of this paper is to explore the Hispanic, Native American, Chinese, and the author’s own personal
Definition of Health Promotion is increasing awareness, indentifying alternatives and influencing attitudes of the people, so that they can make an informed decision and change their behaviors to achieve an optimal level of mental, physical and social health. Health promotion is also defined as the process of empowering people to improve and take control of their health to optimize the quality of their lives. Ennis et al (2006) has explained health promotion as emotional, cognitive and behavioral endeavor to promote well being and health of the people. Davis (1995) expresses a deeper perspective in which preventive health science, social environment,
When clinically assessing patients in care settings, it is paramount for health professionals to elicit pertinent information that could be crucial for delivery of care. This is particularly important in the United States because the increasing diversity in racial and ethnic composition of the population has presented cultural challenges that care givers must navigate to provide culturally competent service. Cultural competence during delivery of care requires sensitivity to the cultural, social, and linguistic needs of patients (Betancourt, Green, Carrillo, 2002). As a consequence, care providers need cultural assessment tools that will enable them
Health promotion is the process of allowing people to control, manage and improve their health by accesses on a social and cultural understanding of health and illness. Health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy lifestyles to wellbeing.
Culture is a pattern of behavior and values shared by an ethnic group. Cultural heritage is a set of traditions within the culture that is hand down from the older generation to the younger generation within the family. These traditions influence the family’s decisions in relation to their diet, education, daily living activities, religious beliefs and practices and also health and illness beliefs. In this paper, the author will focus on the usefulness of applying a heritage assessment in evaluating the needs of a person as a whole. Three different cultures including authors will be discussed about the health maintenance, health promotion, and health restoration. The author will also evaluate health traditions which
The World health Organisation says Health promotion is a method using an assortment of social and environmental interventions to support individuals in managing and improving their own health. (WHO, 2016).
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Health promotion enables people to increase control over their own health. It covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions which are made to benefit and protection individual’s health, wellbeing and quality of life.
In the current fast paced lifestyle, it is important to create health awareness among people in order to improve the overall well being and health of the community. As per O’Donnell (2009), Health Promotion can be defined as “the art and science of directing people to establish the synergies between their lifestyle and their health, enhancing their motivation and supports people to change their lifestyle to strive for an optimal health, thus increasing the overall well being at community and national level”. Optimal health can be described as a harmonious blend of spiritual, emotional, physical, social and intellectual health(O’ Donnell,2009).Health status is beyond the control of a individual, thereby, the focus of improving health is diverted to the role of health public policy and environment. Healthy public policy plays an important role in fabricating supportive environments to aid people to lead a healthy lifestyle. The central goal of this policy in collaboration with WHO has been on health promotion (Tones & Green, 2004).Health promotion is a result of three factors 1) effectiveness of initiative 2) penetration of initiative into community 3) sustainability of the initiative. Health promotion initiative focuses to improve public health by modifying the risk factors (Hawe, Noort, King & Jordens, 1997).