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HEALTH Traditions
Chap. 18
Question | Answer |
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this model is predicated on the concept of holistic health and describes what people do from a traditional perspective to maintain, protect, and restore health | HEALTH traditions model |
all phusical aspects, such as genetic inheritance, body chemistry, gender, age, nutrition, and physical condition | the body |
includes cognitive processes, such as thoughts, memories, and knowledge of such emotional processes as feelings, defenses, and self-esteem | the mind |
includes both positive and negative learned spiritual practices and teachings, dreams, symbols, stories, protecting forces, and metaphysical or native forces | the spiritual |
proper clothing, proper diet, exercise/rest | maintaining HEALTH, physical |
avoid certain people who can cause illness, family activities | protecting HEALTH, mental |
homeopathic remedies, liniments, herbal teas, special foods, massage, acupunture/moxibustion | restoring HEALTH, physical |
concentration, social and family support systems, hobbies | maintaining HEALTH, mental |
special foods and food combination, symbolic clothing | protecting HEALTH, physical |
relaxation, exorcism, curanderos and other traditional healers, nerve teas | restoring HEALTH, mental |
religous worship, prayer, meditation | maintaining HEALTH,spiritual |
religous customs, superstitions, wearing amulets and other symbolic objects to prevent the "Evil Eye" or defray other sources of harm | protecting HEALTH, spiritual |
religous rituals, special prayers, meditation, traditional healings, exorcism | restoring HEALTH, spiritual |
the three views of health beliefs are: | magico-religious, scientific, and holistic |
what view is being used when the client believes that illness is the reslut fo "being bad" or opposing God's will. Getting well is also dependent on God's will | magico-religious health belief |
based on the belief that life and life processes are controlled by physical and biochemical processes that can be manipulated by humans. The client believes that illness is caused by germs, viruses, bacteria, or a breakdown of the body. | scientific or biomedical health belief |
holds that the forces of nature must be maintained in balance or harmony. When the natural balance or harmony is disturbed, illness results | holistic health belief |
The four dimensions must be in balance to be healthy according to the medicine wheel. They are: | physical, the mental, the emotional, and the spiritual |
In some cultures childbirth is considered a ___________ condition, and the client must be offered ________ or ________ foods. | cold/ warm or hot |
Conventional scientific thought recommends ________ the body | cooling |
beliefs and practices relating to illness prevention and healing that derive from cultural traditions rather that from modern medicine's scientific base. It is thought to be more humanistic and less expensive than biomedical care | folk medicine |
________ is the basic unit of society | family |
the _________ need to identify who has the "authority" to make decisions in a clent's family | nurse |
converts written material | translator |
an individual who mediates spoken or signed communication between people speaking different languages without adding, omitting, or distorting meaning or editorializing | interpreter |