Hispanic culture and health care
[DOC File]Latino/Hispanic Cultural ... - Mental Health America
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The following statistics were taken from the “Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity Supplement” to the 1999 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health. Approximately 35.3 million people self-identify as Hispanic. The number is expected to increase to 97 million by 2050 – nearly one-fourth of the U.S. population.
[DOCX File]Session 6: Hispanic/Latino Culture - POGOe
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Hispanic/Latino Culture. Objectives: At the end of this session, the participants will be able to: Define the term acculturation and its impact on providing culturally competent care. Discuss the role of religion, traditional health care beliefs, social values, and family structure of Hispanics/Latino culture and the impact these factors have ...
[DOC File]Physicians, trained in the American medical system, may ...
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In cultures where the family is the primary unit (e.g., many Hispanic and Asian cultures), individuals may prefer to have decisions made by the family, rather than the individual. In Romany (“Gypsy”) culture, where the clan is the primary unit, and …
[DOCX File]Hispanic Pregnancy and Birth
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Nov 27, 2012 · The Hispanic culture tends to rely on religion and spirituality and believe that God has control of most things, including health. Mexican-Americans sometimes forgoes seeking healthcare because they believe that good health is a reward and that bad health is a sign that God is punishing you for something (Eggenberger, 2006).
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Spanish for Health Professionals Span 107. Course description: Hispanic Americans continue to be the fastest growing ethnic minority in the United States; however few health care providers speak Spanish, have access to interpreters, or are familiar with cross-cultural sensitivity in a bilingual, bicultural region.
[DOC File]Cultures and Persons, Patients and Caregivers: Ethical ...
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Aug 26, 2003 · That means health care professionals must be knowledgeable about how culture can affect their interactions with patients. Increasingly, in the hope of providing guidance for health care professionals empirical research seeks to identify and clarify how individuals from different cultural backgrounds go about being patients.
[DOCX File](El Paso) Tenet DSRIP - Health Literacy and Culturally ...
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Specifically, Tenet considered the needs of the large Hispanic population in the El Paso community, as well as the effort that will be required to develop a culturally competent care training program specific to the needs of this population and to implement it by training health care providers at Providence.
[DOCX File]Linking Community Resources and Wisdom: A Cultural ...
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The Hispanic culture tends to view health form a more integrated or synergistic point of view. This view is expressed within a continuum that includes body, mind and spirit. Acculturation issues and problems as they relate to addictions in the Hispanic/Latino community. Poverty and occupational opportunities. Culture and Value Orientation
[DOCX File]The Issue - Health Initiative of the Americas
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These include: lack of knowledge regarding available services, cost of health services, barriers related to differences in culture, language, and beliefs about health and illness conditions, as well as health care seeking behaviors. The under-representation of Latino health-care profes- sionals has been found to be another barrier.
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