Dynamics 6

What responsibilities within the family can differ based on culture?

Males are dominant and make decisions for all family members while women are passive.

culturally defined attitudes about punctuality and perceptions of past, present, and future determine a person's

Time orientation

A common Asian belief values the welfare of the family above that of the ________

person

Traits that are transmitted genetically from parent to child are _____ characteristics

physical

The determination race is based on which characteristic

physical characteristic

Which factor has primary effect on family's ability to access health care services?

poverty, single mothers rasing their children

Tay-Sachs disease and sickle cell anemia are examples of which type of disorder

Hereditary disease

Therapeutic touch, acupressure, and acupuncture are examples of ________

nontraditional healing

what members of a minority group adopt the values, attitudes, and behaviors of a dominant culture, they are going through the process of

cultural assimilation or acculturation

A ________ is a system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations shared by a group of people that provides a structure for daily life

culture

What types of beliefs can influence a patients willingness to agree to certain treatments

culture and ethnic

Patients perception and expression of pain are in influenced by their __________.

pain is culturally influenced

Cultural ________ occurs when a society or region encompasses people with differing countries of origin, ice, religion, gender, language, age, or sexual orientation

diversity

The group of people within a society that controls the society's values is the _______ group

dominant

A sense of identification with a group based on a common heritage by birth or through the adoption of the group's cultural and social characteristics is ____________.

ethnicity

Behaviors based on the biased belief that one's own cultural or social group is superior to others are based on

ethnocentrism

Prevention and treatment practices based on natural remedies passed down through culture for generations are known as ______ medicine.

folk

The health of a family can be affected by its lack of affordable or adequate

housing

What type of transitions involve entering and settling in a country or region of which one is not native-born

may experience culture shock and have to transition to get used to the new culture surrounding

What group within a society has physical or cultural characteristics that differ from the dominant group

minority group

Health care professionals need to understand that patients with a different cultural back ground from their own might __________.

react different

What factor results in higher-income U.S. residents living longer and suffering fewer disabilities than those in lower-income groups?

socioeconomic

People who are members of a larger cultural group but whose beliefs and values differ from those of the larger culture belong to a

subculture