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develop from the shared experiences of a social group and are expressed symbolically.

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Cultural meanings and cultural belief systems

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symbolism is very common in this country

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France

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The use of this to define, describe, and relate to the world around us is one of the basic characteristics of being human.

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Symbols

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One of the most common expressions of symbolism is

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Metaphor

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Metaphor one aspect of life is connected to another through a

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shared symbol

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The most common expressions of symbolism

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Metaphor

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It is a way of thinking and explaining life’s events through which a common belief system.

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Metaphor

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used by a group of people to explain life’s mysteries can be viewed as the group’s worldwide/ major paradigm.

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Set of metaphoric explanations

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Common metaphoric imagery:

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Magical
Religious
Natural/Holistic
Scientific
Biological Form

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Is made up of many different pieces that fit together to create a larger, more beautiful picture.

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Culture

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Is a way of viewing the world and the phenomena in it which are slow to change and do so only if and when their explanatory power has been exhausted.

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Paradigm

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It is a framework containing the basic
assumptions, ways of thinking and linkages holding together prevailing interpretation of reality.

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Paradigm

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It includes groups that reflect total
configuration of beliefs, practices, and permeates every aspect of life

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Paradigm

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are used by nurses such as Nursing care, Health promotion, Illness and Disease. (People are not aware of medical term).

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Symbolism and wordlview

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differ based on preference

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Symbolism

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Theories of health and disease/illness causation are based on the group’s prevailing worldview

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Health belief systems

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reflects the group’s total
configuration of beliefs and practices and permeates every aspect of life within the group’s culture.

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Worldview

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Health Belief Systems includes:

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Attitudes
Beliefs
practices

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3 MAJOR HEALTH BELIEF SYSTEMS or WORLDVIEWS

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Magico-religious health paradigm
Scientific /biomedical health paradigm
Holistic health paradigm

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Supernatural force. Belief in God is universal

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Magico-religious health paradigm

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Disease in magico-religious health paradigm is viewed as …

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the action and result of supernatural forces

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depends on the actions of God or other supernatural forces for good/ evil.

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Fate of humans

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Categories of magico-religious health paradigm

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  1. Sorcery
  2. Breach of taboo
  3. Intrusion of a disease object
  4. Intrusion of a disease-causing spirit
  5. Loss of soul
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Intrusion of a disease-causing spirit:

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Mal ojo
Evil eye in latino

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initiated by a supernatural agent with or without justification/ by another person who practices sorcery/ engages the services of sorcerers.

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Illness in magico-religious health paradigm

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It is a sign of God’s special favor insofar as it gives the affected person the opportunity to become resigned to God’s will/ sign of God’s punishment.

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Illness in magico-religious health paradigm

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as a reward give as a sign of God’s blessing and goodwill

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Health in magico-religious health paradigm

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is controlled by series of physical and biomedical processes that can be studied and manipulated by humans

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Life. Scientific/biomedical health paradigm

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Scientific/biomedical health paradigm is Common in the

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US
Canada
Europe
Australia

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Effective treatment consists of… Often without reagard to human relationships

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Physical and chemical interventions. Scientific biomedical health paradigm

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Viewed metaphorically as the breakdown of the human machine

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Disease in scientific/biomedical health paradigm

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Reasons if diseases in scientific biomedical health paradigm

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■ Wear and Tear (Stress)
■ External Trauma
(Injury, Accident)
■ External Invasion (Pathogens)
■Internal Damages (Fluid and Chemical imbalances,Genetic, Structural changes)

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has a more or less specific cause, and has a predictable time course and set of treatment requirement

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Disease causing illness

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absence of disease/ signs and symptoms of disease

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Must be free of all disease

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Scientific forms of scientific paradigm

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Determinism
Mechanism
Redutionism
Object materialism

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States that a cause and effect relationship exists for all natural phenomenon

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Determinism

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Assumes that it is possible to control life processes through mechanical, genetic, and other engineered interventions

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States that all life can be reduced/ divided into smaller parts

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Reductionism

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Study of the unique characteristics of these isolated parts is thought to reveal aspects of properties of the whole (human genome and its parts)

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Reductionism

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States that what is real can be
observed and measured.

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Object materialism

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Further distinction between subjective and objective realities in this paradigm

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Object materialism

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Forces of nature itself must be kept in natural balance/harmony

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Holistic health paradigm

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is only one aspect of nature and a part of the general order to the cosmos.

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Human life

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Everything in the universe has a place and a role to perform according to natural laws to maintain order.

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Holistic health paradigm

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Disturbing laws creates:

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Imbalances
Chaos
Disease

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Holistic health paradigm Existed in

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American Indian
Asian

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Invasion of mycobacterium

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Tuberculosis

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It is the result of multiple environment host interactions.

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Tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis are caused by interrelationship of

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Poverty
Malnutrition
Overcrowding
Mycobacterium

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defines an attitude or mode of perception in which the whole person is viewed in the context of the total environment

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Jan Christian Smuts 1926

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Its Indo-European root word, means whole, intact, uninjured

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From this root have come the words. kailo

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Hale, hail, hallow, holy, whole, heal, and health

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The forces of nature are balanced to produce harmony.

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Yin and yang

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Force in the universe represents the female aspect of nature.

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It is characterized as the negative pole, encompassing darkness, cold, and emptiness

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or male force, is characterized by fullness, light, and warmth.

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It represents the positive pole.

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An imbalance of forces creates

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This is founded on the ancient Greek concept of the four body humors

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Hot/cold theory of disease

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Four body humors

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Yellow bile
Black bile
Phlegm
Blood

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The four humors work together to ensure the… Of the body

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Optimum nutrition
Growth
Metabolism

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When the humors are balanced in the healthy individual, the state of…exists

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When the humors are in a state of imbalance, this is referred to as

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