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Cultural Impact on Health and Nursing

1. Culture shapes perceptions of health and illness. It influences how patients and healthcare providers view diseases, their causes, and appropriate treatments. Providers must be aware of cultural differences to effectively care for diverse populations. 2. Chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory illnesses are often caused by unhealthy behaviors like poor diet, physical inactivity, and tobacco use. They can also stem from childhood risk factors and socioeconomic determinants like poverty. 3. A comprehensive geriatric assessment evaluates older adults' medical issues, functional abilities, psychological well-being, social support systems, finances, and home environment to develop appropriate care plans.

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Cultural Impact on Health and Nursing

1. Culture shapes perceptions of health and illness. It influences how patients and healthcare providers view diseases, their causes, and appropriate treatments. Providers must be aware of cultural differences to effectively care for diverse populations. 2. Chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory illnesses are often caused by unhealthy behaviors like poor diet, physical inactivity, and tobacco use. They can also stem from childhood risk factors and socioeconomic determinants like poverty. 3. A comprehensive geriatric assessment evaluates older adults' medical issues, functional abilities, psychological well-being, social support systems, finances, and home environment to develop appropriate care plans.

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Cultural factor/ethnicity such as regard for elders, perception of health


What is culture?

 Culture is the pattern of ideas, customs, and behaviors shared by a particular people or society.

Impact of Culture on Health

*Health is a cultural concept because cultural frames and shapes how we perceive the world
and our experience.

 How patients and health care providers view health and illness.
 What patients and health care providers believe about the causes of disease.
 Which diseases or conditions are stigmatized and why.
 What types of health promotion activities are practiced, recommended or insured.
 How illness and pain are experienced and express.
 Where patient seek help, and, perhaps, when they make their first approach.

Providing health care to different cultural groups

 Developing a guide to help health professionals understand cultural preferences and


characteristics around the world would be a mammoth understanding. However, health care
providers should learn skills around cultural competence and patient-centered care.

Remember:

 Cultural are dynamic.


 There is a huge diversity within any culture.
 Even when you think you understand one culture, it will have evolved or you will have identified
exceptions.

2. Risk factors associated with chronic illness


What are chronic diseases?

 Cardiovascular diseases, mainly heart diseases and stroke


 Cancer
 Chronic respiratory diseases
 Diabetes
 Others, such as mental disorders, vision, and hearing impairment, oral diseases, bone and joint
disorders, and genetic disorders.

What causes chronic diseases?

 Unhealthy diet
 Physical activity
 Tobacco use

Chronic diseases:

 Heart disease
 Childhood risk
 Risk accumulation
 Underlying determinants
 Poverty
 Stroke
 Cancer
 Chronic respiratory diseases
 Diabetes

3. Comprehensive geriatic assessment


Medical assessment

 Problem list
 Comorbidities
 Medications
 Nutritional assessment

Functional assessment

 Basic activities of daily living


 Instrumental activities of daily living
 Exercise/activity assessment

Psychological assessment

 Cognitive status
 Assessment of mood

Social assessment

 Informal social support

Environmental assessment

 Care resource eligibility/financial assessment


 Home safety
 Access to transport facilities
4. What are the nursing diagnosis related to wellness and chronic illness
 What is nursing diagnosis?
 Purposes of Nursing Diagnosis
 Differentiating nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis, and collaborative problems
 NANDA International (NANDA-I)
 History of evolution of nursing diagnosis
 Classification of nursing diagnosis (taxonomy II)
 Nursing process
o Assessment
o Diagnosis
o Planning
o Intervention
o Evaluation
 Types of nursing diagnosis
o Problem-focused nursing diagnosis
o Risk nursing diagnosis
o Health promotion diagnosis
o Syndrome diagnosis
o Possible nursing diagnosis
 Components of a nursing diagnosis
o Problem and definition
o Etiology
o Risk factors
o Defining characteristics
 Diagnostic process: How to diagnose
o Analyzing data
o Identifying health problems, risk, and strengths
o Formulating diagnostic statements
 How to write a nursing diagnosis?
o PES format
 One-part nursing diagnosis statement
 Two-part nursing diagnosis statement
 Three-part nursing diagnosis statement
 Nursing diagnosis for care plans
 Reference and sources

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