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Health Promotion Ch2
Health Promotion Chapter 2: Emerging Populations and Health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Voluntary Migration | Generally motivation by the quest of the individual or group for one or more goals including education opportunities, economic benefits, social improvements, and political or religious freedom |
| Immigrants | Come for positive experience |
| Refugees | Leave homeland under threat of injury or loss of life |
| Sojourners | Stay for a specified length of time and then return to their homelands |
| Involuntary Migration | Fleeing or being forced out of homeland |
| Race | Emphasizes physical properties and biological heredity; Categorical system to designate persons with distinctive physical characteristics |
| Arbitrary Taxonomy | More variation within races than between them, can't be distinctive easily |
| Social Construct | Not useful to identify populations for health/ research purposes |
| Ethnicity | A collective identity, a sense of uniqueness within the larger society, and a distinction from nonmembers. Denote sharing of customs, food, dress, language, and etc. |
| Ethnic Group | Includes members with the sense of belonging to the collective identity. Set apart on basis of cultural or national origin characteristics. Values and perceptions about health and illness evolve from the socialization process |
| Minority Group | Consists of people who receive less than their share of wealth, power, or social status |
| Culture | An element of ethnicity; consists of shared patterns of values and behaviors that characterize a cultural group |
| Cultural Values | Unique, individual expressions of a particular culture that have been accepted as appropriate. Guide actions, decisions, and behaviors. |
| Value Orientation | Learned and shared thru the socialization process. Reflect the personality type of a particular group. |
| Health care barriers for diverse populations | Lack of insurance, Availability of health care facilities/ resources, Inadequate transportation, Complexity of health care system, Fragmentation of care, Attitudes of health care provider and incongruent beliefs b/w patients/ providers |
| Professional Health Care System | Characterized by specialized education and knowledge, responsibility for care, and expectation of remuneration of services rendered |
| Folk Healing System | Embodies the beliefs, values, and treatment approaches of a particular cultural group |
| Ethnocentrism | Views other ways as inferior, unnatural, or even barbaric |
| Holism | Incorporates family and support system in care, considers patient viewpoint |
| Ethnic Minorities | Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, Blacks/African Americans, Latinos/ Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and Arab Americans |
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