Pharm CH 3 Word Scramble
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alternative health practices | When a dominant group adopts health practices from a nondominant group |
acculturation | is the process by which a group adjusts to living within a dominant culture while at the same time maintaining its original identity. |
assimilation | occurs when a less powerful group changes its ways to blend in with the dominant cultural group. |
community | is a cluster of individuals who function as a group to attain cultural universals. |
complementary health practices | combine traditional beliefs and mainstream health practices. |
culture | defined as sets of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of a community |
cultural universals | are designed to meet the community's survival needs and common goals such as the obtainment of food and other practices that maintain the group. |
ethnopharmacology | is the study of drug responses that may be unique to an individual owing to social, cultural, and biologic phenomena. |
genomes | are a complete set of chromosomes and make up a cell's DNA. |
healers | play a role in traditional health practices in about 80% of the population worldwide. |
pharmacogenetics | integrates the study of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and variations of the predicted response to a drug due to genetic factors. |
pharmacogenomics | to the general study of all the different genes that determine drug behavior. |
polymorphisms | are DNA variants that occur within a specific population at a frequency greater than 1%. |
traditional health practices | may include use of teas, herbs, spices, and special foods as well as homeopathic remedies, poultices, and ointments. These practices can have neutral, beneficial, or deleterious effects on a patient's health. |
subtrate | is a substance that binds to and is metabolized by one or more enzymes. |
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