Culture, Globalization & Health
Miscellaneous
Research in Seattle
Critical Thinking
The Spirit Catches You
100
The process by which a society’s culture is passed on from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
What is enculturation?
100
Someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence
What is a refugee?
100
This occurs when the heart malfunctions and stops beating unexpectedly.
What is cardiac arrest?
100
A mistaken belief, especially one based on an unsound argument.
What is a fallacy?
100
The book that chronicles the struggles of specific group of refugees and their interactions with the health care system
What are the Hmong?
200
The belief that the ways of one’s own culture are the only proper ones.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
As of 2011, name one of the top three countries of origin of the world's refugees.
What is Palestine, Syria or Iraq?
200
This occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
200
Arguments can be made using Ethos, Pathos or this.
What is Logos?
200
The book focuses on the family's second youngest and favored daughter, Lia Lee, who was diagnosed with this.
What is epilepsy?
300
The idea that one must suspend judgment of other peoples’ practices in order to understand those practices in their own cultural terms.
What is cultural relativism?
300
Where people switch back and forth between dialects. We can do this when we switch also from formal to informal speech, or begin to use slang.
What is codeswitching?
300
The University of Washington Research Project is a partnership between the U of W, Portland State University, EMA and this public servant.
What is the Seattle Fire Department?
300
This Key Ethical Theory is also known as the "greatest happiness principle."
What is utilitarianism?
300
Once Lia had her first seizure -- her parents, Foua and Nao Kao -- believed what had happened.
What is the noise of the door had caused her soul to flee?
400
Fear or hatred of strangers or anything foreign
What is xenophobia?
400
In health care this include reducing health disparities and providing optimal care to patients regardless of their race, ethnic background, native languages spoken, and religious or cultural beliefs.
What is cultural competence?
400
This has been proven to be just as effective as the technique with breaths, in treating adult cardiac arrest victims.
What is Bystander CPR?
400
This Key Ethical Theory focuses on the fact that character matters above all else.
What is Virtue Ethics?
400
While they were concerned for Lia's safety, they also believed her seizures made her special, as many epileptics were chosen to be what?
What is a twix neeb or shaman?
500
Those character traits that occur with the highest frequency in a social group and are therefore the most representative of its culture.
What is modal personality?
500
A theory in linguistics: one's language determines one's conception of the world
What is Whorfian Hypothesis?
500
This stands for Automated External Defibrillator.
What is an AED?
500
This Key Ethical Theory involves focusing on the "common good."
What is Communitarian Ethics?
500
Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since this age.
What is four years old?