Culture and Physical Health
Quantifiable characteristics of a population which researchers use to describe the health of a population
What is a health indicator?
An example of a universal disorder
What is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)?
A specific belief or assumption about an individual based on one’s membership in a particular social group, regardless of individual characteristics
What is stereotype?
The degree to which a finding, measurement, or statistic consistently measures what it is supposed to
What is reliability?
Intersex individuals make up this percentage of the world's population
What is 2% of the population?
The dual process of cultural and psychological change that takes place as a result of contact between two or more cultural groups and their individual members
What is acculturation?
The creators of the 1940s definition of health
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
A condition characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
What is mental illness?
The degree to which a finding, measurement, or statistic is accurate, or represents what it is supposed to
The social construction and categorization of people based on perceived shared physical traits that result in the maintenance of a sociopolitical hierarchy
A common cause of infant mortality
What is premature birth?
The tendency to see out-groups as less human, or as having less humanity than in-groups
What is infrahumanization?
The use of non-numerical data to understand phenomena
What is qualitative research?
Some psychologists argue could that this type of mental disorder could actually be a Western cultural concept of distress
A state or condition of similarity in conceptual meaning and empirical method between cultures that allows comparisons to be meaningful
What is equivalence?