Health Assessment and Cultural Context Quiz

The totality of socially transmissible behavioral patterns, arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways, and all other products of human work and thought characteristic of a population or people that guide their worldview and decision making.

The tendency to view your own way of culture as the most desirable, acceptable, or best, and to act in a superior manner toward other cultures.

The process where people adapt to or borrow traits from another culture.

<p>A disorder that occurs in response to the transition from one cultural setting to another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assuming all members of a culture or ethnic group are alike.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learned, shared, adapted, universal</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Culturally-defined conditions with no equivalent from a biomedical perspective</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hesitant to ask questions, consider eye contact disrespectful, respect elders and authority figures, interpret 'no' as disrespect, prefer family involvement in care</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Hwa-byung' is a mental illness common in married, middle-aged Korean women, triggered by life crises.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Belief in illness caused by supernatural, punishment from God, or imbalance between caliente and frio forces; seek advice from older women, then visit 'jerbero' or 'curandero/curandera'</p> Signup and view all the answers