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
- health beliefs and practices are oriented
towards protection of the body.
a. Flushing
b. Heating
c. Protection
Health Beliefs and
Behaviors: Health
Promotion/ Treatment
Concepts
- Filipino older adults tend t cope with illness with the
help of family and friends, and by faith in God. - Illness is viewed as miracle
- Traditional home remedies such as alternative or
complimentary means of treatment - Seeking medical advice from family members or
friends who are health professionals
Response to illness
Patience and endurance (Tiyaga)
- Flexible (Lakas ng loob)
- Humor (Tatawanan anf problema)
- Fatalistic Resignation (Bahala na)
- Conceding to the wishes of the collective (Pakikisama)
Coping Styles
- Devastating shame (Hiya)
- Sensitivity to criticism (Amor Propio)
Responses to Mental Illness
- Unwillingness to accept having mental illness, which leads to the avoidance
of needed mental health services due to fear of being ridiculed - Involvement of other coping resources such as reliance on family and
friends or indigenous healers, and dependence on religion which can
diminish the need for mental health services - Prioritizing of financial and environmental needs which preclude the need
for mental health services
Common Perception of Filipinos about Mental Illness
Limited awareness of mental health services resulting in limiting
access
* Difficulty in utilizing mental health services during usual hours
because of the unavailability of working adult family members
* Mental illness connotes a weak spirit, and may be attributed to divine
retribution as a consequence of personal and ancestral transgression
* Lack of culturally oriented mental health services
Common Perception of Filipinos about Mental Illness
means acquiring
a behavioral or disease trait from a
parent.
Namamana (Inheritance)
means a concept used to explain why
some children are noted to have certain
specific characteristics
Lihi (Conception on maternal cravings) -
- is roughly
defined as an “exposure illness” which
occurs when a condition considered to be
“hot” is attacked by a “cold” element and
vice versa
Pasma (Hot and cold syndrome)
are
beliefs in the Filipino culture
pertaining to a curse
Sumpa & Gaba (Curse)
the curse is inflicted by
a human being
Sumpa
is a curse that is inflicted
by a higher being when one
commits a social wrongdoing
Gaba
- is a Filipino belief that a disease is
caused by an intervention of a
supernatural or a mystical being
Namaligno (Mystical & supernatural causes)
means God’s
will
Kaloob ng Diyos (God’s will) -
