Filipino Cultural Characteristics and Health Care Beliefs and Practice in Health Education Flashcards
is the “thought, communications,
actions, customs, beliefs, values, and
institutions of racial, ethnic, religious or social
groups.”
Culture
refers to the “facts or state of being
different.
Diversity
– is the classification of people according to shared biologic characteristics,
genetics, markers or features.
Race
is a group within a social system that claim to possess variable traits
such as a common religion or language.
Ethnicity
- it is neither instinctive nor innate
Culture is learned
it is transmitted from parents to children over successive
generations.
Culture is taught
– it originates and develops through the interactions of people:
families, groups, and communities.
Culture is social
– customs, beliefs and practices change people adapt to the
social environment and as biologic and psychologic needs of people change.
Culture is adaptive
– cultural habits persist only as they satisfy people’s need
Culture is satisfying
members of a specific cultural group often find
it different to articulate their own culture.
Culture is difficult to articulate –
culture is most easily identified at the material
level
Culture exists at many levels
Refers to those customs,
beliefs, or practices that have
existed for many generations
without changing
Traditional
Two Transcultural
health care system:
- Indigenous health
care system - Professional health
care system
Is defined as those beliefs and
practices relating to illness prevention
and healing which derive from the
cultural traditions rather than from
the modern medicine’s scientific base.
Folk medicine
Referred as the “general practitioners” and the “primary
dispenser of health care”
* Usually come from a family-line of healers
Albularyo
Denotes to “both the midwife
(magpapaanak) and the chiropractic
practitioner (manghihilot”
Hilot
A spittle specialist, a laypersons believed to possess the
ability to more effectively counter bales-induced
headaches, using same procedure of chewing various
herbs and dabbing and crossing it with his/her thumb
over various body parts.
Mangdudura
Its use is in the purview of the albularyo for a variety of febrile
conditions, a child’s incessant crying or failure to thrive.
* Ritualistic
* Used to ‘cross’ (sign of a cross) the forehead and other
suspicious or ailing parts of the body while prayers are being
whispered (bulong).
TAWAS
alternative modalities used by albularyos and other folk
healers for bales.
USOG, BULONG, ORASYON TAPAL
Is a preventive measure used for infants and young children
prone bales.
UNTON
Health is thought to be a result of balance
Illness due to humoral pathology
Stress is usually the result of some imbalance
Concepts of Balance
(Timbang)
Bangungot, or
that having nightmares after a
heavy meal may result in death.
. Mystical Causes
witch
(Manga ga mud) or sorcerer
(Mangkukulam), (Herbularyo) or
priest, and holy oils, or wearing
religious objects, amulets or
talismans (anting anting).
Personalistic Causes
consists of Prevention (avoiding
inappropriate behavior that leads
to imbalance) and Curing
(restoring balance); it is system
oriented to moderation.
Naturalistic Causes
