Chapter 13 Diversity And Difference in Health Care Key Terms
Folk Medicine
A form of prevention and treatment that uses old -fashioned remedies and household medicines handed down from generation to generation within a particular culture.
Race
A group of people unidentified by specific physical characteristics, such as skin pigment, body stature, facial features, and hair texture.
Subculture
A group of people who are members of a larger cultural group, but whose attitudes and behaviors reflect different beliefs and values from those of the larger culture.
Cultural Diversity
A group of people whose members are characterized by a wide range of distinction, including race, national origin, religion, language,physical size, and gender.
Minority Group
A group of people with the some physical or cultural characteristics that identify the people within it as different from the dominate group, such as race, religion,beliefs,or custom and practice.
Dominant Group
A group within society a that tends to control that society's value.
Cultural Assimilation
A process by which a member of a minority group shifts his or her identity from the minority group to dominant group and adopts the values, attitudes, and behaviors of the dominant culture; also know as acculturation.
Acculturation
A process by which a member of a minority group shifts his or her identity from the minority group to the dominant group and adopts the values, attitudes, and behaviors of the dominant culture; also know as cultural assimilation.
Ethnicity
A sense of identification with a group based on common heritage.
Culture
A shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations that provide structure for daily living.
Heredity
Inherited genetically; there is a greater likelihood that offspring may develop heredity diseases or disordered if one or both parents have the disease or disorder.
Immigrate
Settle in a new country.
Ethnocentrisum
The belief or assumption that a particular social or cultural group is superior in one way.
