Models of Health
This model states no visible symptoms and signs of disease and illness, people do not seek care until s/s are visible.
What is Clinical Model?
The collective identities and memories developed by members of all social groups that make their social environments meaningful including their languages, customs, beliefs, rules, arts, and knowledge.
What is Culture?
This population is considered vulnerable in healthcare due to factors like socioeconomic status, health disparities, and limited access to resources.
Who are vulnerable populations?
This condition is characterized by low blood sugar levels, often caused by factors such as excessive insulin or skipping meals with symptoms including, sweating, shakiness and confusion.
What is hypoglycemia?
These two traditional Chinese medicine practices involve stimulating specific points on the body to reduce or prevent pain and various disorders.
What are Acupuncture and Acupressure?
What is the Role Performance Model?
This area of study in nursing focuses on discovering/explaining how groups or individuals within certain cultural backgrounds are influenced in overall health, illness or death.
What is Transcultural Nursing?
This population is considered to be the healthiest among ethnic groups in the United States and has the longest life expectancy. With cultural beliefs, the oldest male in the family makes the decisions.
Who are Asian American?
Factors such as poverty, unemployment, mental illness and lack of affordable housing contribute these social issues, which impact public health and social services.
What is homelessness?
This therapy involves applying pressure to specific areas of the feet, hands, ears believed to correspond with different body organs and systems.
What is reflexology?
One would use this model if they wanted to be proactive about their health and find a provider who may offer practice alternative medicine.
What is the Eudaimonistic Model?
This group of people experiences high rates of obesity, cancer heart disease, and stroke compared to other ethnic groups. The use Folk Healing and home remedies before seeking professional help.
Who are Latino/Hispanic Americans?
This type of health promotion focuses on population-level initiatives, while the other targets personalized health behaviors.
What is the difference between community health promotion and individual health promotion?
Challenges such as language barriers, lack of access to healthcare, and social disparities are common for these groups in new countries.
Who are immigrants and refugees?
This practice involves using musical elements to promote physical, emotional and mental health, benefiting individuals with various conditions.
What is music therapy?
What is Adaptive Model?
This group of people experiences higher rates of obesity, cancer, heart disease, stroke, HIV, Hep B, and TB but draws culturally holistic based interventions known as "Talk Story".
Who are Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders?
This population has experienced higher rates of COVID-19 and deaths due to higher rates of comorbidities and socioeconomic factors limiting access to healthcare.
Who are Black/African Americans?
This group relies heavily on their faith and family during times of hardship and illness. Health education among older men is well-received in the parish nursing approach.
Who are Black/African Americans?
This type of therapy aims to balance the body's energy fields to promote healing and well-being, often involving practices like Reiki or therapeutic touch.
What is the key differences between the clinical model and the eudamonistic model?
What is the clinical model focuses on the absence of signs/symptoms while eudaimonistic model emphasizes full well-being, meaning in life and alternative health practices.
What is Culturally sensitive assessment?
This population deals with isolation, inadequate sewage disposal, and low income. Prefer to use spiritual healing and shamans versus medical intervention unless needed.
What is American Indians/Alaska Natives?
This population has limited health information due to being asked to re-identify as white for the US census. However, they do have a higher rate of tobacco use due to many long traditions using water pipes also known as a Shisha.
Who are Arab Americans?
Known as conventional medicine, this system focuses on diagnosing and treating diseases primarily through pharmacological and surgical interventions.
What is Western or allopathic medicine?