Defining Culture & Health
This term describes how culture and biology interact to shape health experiences.
What is biocultural?
This term describes health systems rooted in local cultural beliefs and practices.
What is ethnomedicine?
When a person feels sick and decides to seek help, they are engaging in this behavior.
What is illness behavior?
This concept explains how policies and institutions can cause or worsen health problems.
What is structural violence?
This is the perception people have of how likely they are to face a health threat.
What is perceived risk?
A shared way of life, including knowledge, beliefs, and practices, is best described by this concept.
What is culture?
In many cultures, this type of healer serves as a spiritual guide and health provider.
What is a shaman?
These professionals often serve as bridges between cultural traditions and biomedical care.
What are lay or traditional healers?
According to David Williams, racism acts as this type of stressor.
What is a chronic or toxic stressor?
This method uses interviews and observations to explore cultural beliefs.
What is qualitative research?
This health model considers physical, mental, spiritual, and community wellness.
What is a holistic model?
These are mental or emotional conditions shaped by specific cultural environments.
What are culture-bound syndromes?
This refers to social disapproval attached to certain health conditions like HIV or leprosy.
What is stigma?
This term describes trauma passed across generations, often through biological and social means.
What is historical trauma?
This set of 15 practices is designed to improve healthcare quality for diverse patients.
What are the National CLAS Standards?
These smaller cultural groups exist within larger dominant cultures but maintain distinct traditions.
What are subcultures?
This concept explains how different societies classify and interpret emotional distress.
What is cultural systems of psychology?
Many cultures associate illness with wrongdoing, linking health to this.
What is morality?
This scientific process explains how environmental stress can affect gene expression.
What is epigenetics?
This form of research is often used to test hypotheses with measurable (countable) variables.
What is quantitative research?
Unlike idealist views of culture, this perspective sees economic systems as the foundation of cultural beliefs.
What is materialism?
These three interrelated domains structure most ethnomedical systems.
What are beliefs about etiology, diagnosis, and treatment?
The idea that people “deserve” illness based on behavior is an example of this concept.
What is moral etiology?
These are examples of how trauma can “get under the skin” and affect health at a biological level.
What are biological pathways?
Health interventions that align with cultural practices and values aim to achieve this.
What is cultural competence or cultural relevance?