Impact Of A Collective Leadership Intervention In Healthcare Teams
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The article I will write about is how culture influences health beliefs. Tradition is the DNA of our beliefs, but then each person modifies that complex for his or her own unique environment. People may understand their illness differently which is also influenced by culture. Evidences are there to show that not only culture does play a significant role in terms of how society understand our health, but that different cultures observe this aspect differently and that these differences can play a key role in terms of how illness is managed.
I will discuss critical areas how health and illness are perceived, coping styles, treatment seeking patterns, racism, and discrimination. One aspect of difference across cultures relates to what the cause or nature of disease or illness is perceived to be. Culture modifies our coping styles, or the ways that we cope with everyday problems and to more extreme types of difficulty. Not only are there cultural variations in the types of stressors that people experience, but the assessment of stressors also varies, as do the choice of responses to stressors. People from ethnic minorities are less likely to seek health treatment and also more likely to present in crisis compared with the majority community in Western countries. While cultural differences provide a number of challenges to health policy and its implementations, they also provide a number of prospects to work in distinctive and effective ways towards positive health.
In conclusion ethnic and racial minorities face a social and economic inequality that includes greater exposure to racism and discrimination, violence, and poverty. Cultural misunderstandings or communication problems between patients and clinicians may prevent minorities from using services and receiving appropriate care (Putul, Kahua, Choudhury & Shobhana, 2018). Health care providers are challenged with various environments, effectively communicate treatment options, provide patient education, deliver follow-up care, and aid in decision making from diagnosis through end of life (Penrod, Baney, Loeb, McGhan, & Shipley, 2012).
Besides the health care providers being culturally competent, how else could medical professionals improve their care to different cultures?
References
Penrod, J., Baney, B., Loeb, S. J., McGhan, G., & Shipley, P. (2012). The Influence of the
Culture of Care on Informal Caregivers’ Experiences. NIH Public Access,1-15. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
Putul, M., Kahua, T. D., Choudhury, M. K., & Shobhana, M. (2018). The Influence of Culture and Society
on Mental Health. Medico-Legal Update, 18(2), 198–201. https://doi- org.proxy.library.ohio.edu/10.5958/0974-1283.2018.00156.
