Week 14: Relational Approach to Health Assessment Flashcards
Definition: Critical cultural perspective
Analyzes how culture is influenced by factors like power, ideology, and social structures, examining how these forces shape meaning and communication.
Definition: Culturalism
Refers to the idea that culture is the primary determinant of human behavior and experience, often emphasizing the influence of nationality, ethnicity, and religion.
Definition: Culture
The shared beliefs, values, traditions, social norms, and behaviors of a group of people, often encompassing their language, arts, and ways of life.
Definition: Discrimination
The process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, class, religion, or sexual orientation.
Definition: Dominant health care culture
The dominant healthcare culture in the Western world, particularly in North America, is rooted in scientific rationality and the biomedical model.
Definition: Ethnic group
A social group bound together by shared cultural traits, ancestry, history, or language, and often a sense of shared identity.
Definition: Ethnicity
The quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
Definition: Gender identity
A person’s internal sense of their gender, which can be different from their assigned sex at birth.
Definition: Health inequality
Refers to differences, variations, and
disparities in the health status of individuals and g
Definition: Health inequity
Refers to inequalities in health that are unnecessary and avoidable and differences that are considered unfair and unjust.
Definition: Immigrant
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
Definition: Indigenous peoples
The original inhabitants of a region and their descendants, often having distinct cultures, languages, and a strong connection to their ancestral lands.
Definition: Race
A social construction and group based on perceived shared physical or social qualities, often considered distinct within a given society.
Definition: Racialization
The process by which societies construct race as a real, different, and unequal social category, impacting economic, political, and social life.
Definition: Racism
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
Definition: Reconciliation
The restoration of friendly relations.
Definition: Relational approach
A relational approach emphasizes the importance of relationships and interactions in various contexts, including therapy, education, and research.
Definition: Relative poverty
Lacking the minimum income needed in the society
in which they live in order to meet the standard of living
Definition: Spirituality
Spirituality a “search for the meaning”, and “more
central to the human experience than religion”; may be significant in how a person deals with their health and illness
Definition: Visible minority
Defined as a person, other than an Indigenous person, who is non-white in colour or race.
