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
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