Cultural Assessment Ch. 2

Question 1

What is SDOH?

Answer 1

Social Determinants of Health

affect a person from preconception to death

Question 2

What does the EBP state has the biggest influence on health status?

Answer 2

Poverty

Question 3

List the SDOH

Answer 3

Social Determinants of Health

Neighborhood and built environment
Health/Health care
Social/Community context
Education
Economic stability

Question 4

Define:
Ethnicity
Acculturation

Answer 4

Ethnicity: Social group with shared traits

Acculturation: Process of adopting culture and behavior of the majority culture

Question 5

Define:
Spirituality
Religion

Answer 5

Spirituality: broader term encompassing something larger than one’s own existence with a belief in transcendence

Religion: Organized system of beliefs as a shared experience that can assist in meeting one’s individual spiritual needs

Question 6

Define Health

Answer 6

The BALANCE of a person with one’s own being and the outside world

Question 7

Which Disease Causation Theory states that forces in nature must remain in balance?

Give examples

Answer 7

Naturalistic/Holistic

Yin/Yang theory
Hot/Cold theory

Question 8

Which Disease Causation Theory states that there is a cause and effect?

Give an example

Answer 8

Biomedical/Scientific

germ theory of disease

Question 9

Which Disease Causation Theory states that supernatural forces dominate resulting in good versus evil?

Give examples

Answer 9

Magicoreligious

Voodoo
Faith Healing

Question 10

Explain Developmental Competence

Answer 10

Values held by dominant culture influence perception of older adults

Independence, self-reliance, productivity

Care-dependent vs. caregivers

culture shock

Question 11

What kind of questions should begin a spiritual assessment?

Answer 11

Open-Ended, like “do you have any religious or spiritual preferences that we can support?”