Social And Cultral Influences

Question 1

Ethnocentrism

Answer 1

The belief that one’s own culture is the natural, or best, culture

Question 2

Culture

Answer 2

A total way of life shared by the members of a group

Question 3

Inequalities

Answer 3

The lower the family’s or inderviduals income, the poorer the physical and social conditions of living tend to be

Question 4

Ethnicity

Answer 4

How people define themselves, and how they are defined by others

Question 5

Explanatory Model

Answer 5

The perceptions and expectations that members of a culture have about health and illness, including causes and mechanisms, timing, future course and outcome, and appropriate treatment

Question 6

Socialisation

Answer 6

The process of learning the culture of a society or group, its language and customs

Question 7

Evidence based medicine

Answer 7

The view that all clinical practice should be based on evidence from randomised clinical trials to ensure treatments are effective and better than a placebo

Question 8

Inequalities in health

Answer 8

Socio-economic factors
Behaviour
Living conditions
Social selection

Question 9

Social capital

Answer 9

The level of trust people have in one another, in government institutions and in the health professions

Question 10

Medicalisation

Answer 10

The process of defining non-medical issues or problems as medical issues, often because health professionals are the only (or the most easily accessible) resource for dealing with them

Question 11

Primary socialisation

Answer 11

The first learning unit (usually the family) where children receive unique characteristics of their cultural make up eg language, beliefs, values, customs and behaviours

Question 12

Secondary socialisation

Answer 12

Learning of behavioural patterns that occurs outside the family environment such as school system

Question 13

Tertiary socialisation

Answer 13

Behaviours that are acquired as a process of engagement with others that occurs outside mandatory formal education such as social and free time activities

Question 14

Cross cycle psychology

Answer 14

The systematic study of relationships between the cultural content of human development and the behaviours that become established in the repertoire of individuals growing up in that particular culture

Question 15

Cross cultural competence

Answer 15

Behaviours, attitudes and motivations that are demonstrated by an individual in a professional capacity
Eg guidelines and policies,broader social legislation