Cultural beliefs

Question 1

What is culture

Answer 1

The set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterises a group of people.

Includes religion language customs food music etc

Primary passed down from parents to offspring
Is learned and is capable of being changed

Question 2

What is Race?

Answer 2

classification of humans into large groups by factors such as heritable phenotypic characteristics of geographic ancestry and is also influenced by traits such as appearance culture and ethnicity

Is not changeable ie permanent

Question 3

What is ethnicity?

Answer 3

Ethnicity is the state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition

Question 4

What is Racism?

Answer 4

Is prejudice and discrimination against a group of people of a particular race, ethnicity or culture based on belief

Question 5

What group of people is sickle cell anemia hypertension and stroke most common in

Answer 5

African and black Caribbean descent

Question 6

What group of people is Tay-sachs disease most common in?

Answer 6

those of Jewish or French Canadian ancestory

Question 7

What population is cystic fibrosis most common in

Answer 7

northern European

Question 8

What factors many influence minorities use of health services?

Answer 8

Language barriers
stigma
Accessibility of services
lifestyle socioeconomic status 
racism
access to alternative treatment options and personal beliefs surrounding certain treatment and medications