MH Chapter 1 Review

Question 1

What is the focus of multicultural health and why is it important?

Question 2

Is race a biological or social construct?

Question 3

Why is race important?

Question 3

Why is race important?

Question 4

What is the difference between ethnicity and culture?

Question 5

What is the difference between race and culture?

Question 6

Explain cultural ethnocentricity and cultural relativism.

Question 7

Explain the differences between the concepts of acculturation, assimilation, and bicultural.

Question 8

Does the level of acculturation have a positive or negative effect on health? Explain.

Question 9

Explain what health disparities are and their causes.

Question 10

Describe the key intentions of the Civil Rights Act and the Hill-Burton Act.

Question 11

Explain the ethical principles related to health care decision making and how they influence health care services.

Question 12

Read the Case Study on page 27.

Question 13

How can health care providers prepare for situations like Lia’s?

Question 14

Should child protective services have been contacted?

Question 15

Were Lia’s parents irresponsible?

Question 16

How did the parents’ belief system affect Lia’s health care?

Question 17

Were the parents’ decisions morally and legally wrong?