Effect Of Culture On Illness

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TOPIC FOR PRESNTATION

EFFECT

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CULTURE ON ILLNESS GA

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Health System • A set of cultural beliefs and practices;

• the institutional arrangements; and • the socio-economic, political & physical context Health system includes environmental conditions, nutrition, water supply, education, housing, status of women, social structures, economic and political system GA

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Factors influencing health service utilization Socio-demographic factors •Age/sex of child •Family size/ equivalence •Education •Occupation GA

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Health service factors •Attitudes of health provider •Satisfaction with the treatment •Received medicines from Health Facility/Health Care Provider •Received prescription for medicines to be purchased from bazaar GA

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PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE

Focus on Life-styles Focus on the Environment Shift focus from individuals to populations PRODUCING HEALTH

Cost-effective health care Evidence-based decision/ policy GA

Resources to sector that contribute to health 6

Insufficient focus on Prevention/Promotion Gender Imbalances Excessive centralization of management

GOVT. HEALTH SERVICES: WEAKNESSES

Political Interference Lack of sincerity Weak human resource development Lack of integration GA

Lack of Healthy Public Policy 7

CULTURE AND ILLNESS Culture is a sociological phenomenon where is basically a physical, mental or logical ailment.  If traced, the rote of culture and also are as deaf as the history of disease. 

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Cont…  Things

become quite complicated when culture begun to over shadow the already weakly delicate field of health and sickness negatively many deep rooted beliefs of culture can hamper positive development.

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CHANGE OF ROLE When a person become ill, it not only upsets him mentally but also leads to disturbances in the family and other social relationships.  An adult person has lone duties and responsibilities in the family. Sickness interferes in their fulfillment, particularly if the sick person has to be admitted in a hospital for his treatment. 

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MALE DOMINANCE 

In a our society where make superiority is a dominating factor, the culturally nourished pride of make patients may be heart and it can be shocking for them when they find a female doctor challenging them by prescribing a scientific and accurate prescription. GA

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Cont…  Moreover,

they are long taken care of by female nurses and have to listen to them patiently through out their stay in the hospital.  Patient may prefer to cope with their problem the have way as that of bears who take cover and do not die even with no food intake during that period GA

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ELDERLY PATIENT Older patients may, at times, find the treatment either too challenging or too improper. They find it difficult to adjust in hospital. The doctors and nurses may be considering extra interested. The trained specialist has their professional obligations.  When the old age with the traditionally clarified image feel & motivated, the outcome may not be very encouraging. In other words, that culture honors'. 

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THE POOR PATIENTS 

The poor or socially degraded patients have an inborn tendency for self-priority. As they are denied respect by the society, they expect extra are when they are extended a warm welcome in the hospital.

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DOCTOR’S ROLE In our society, cultural implications for doctors in therapy are like a barbed-wire fence for the soldier.  He has to cope with many professional barriers, cultural drawbacks and individuals’ characteristics before being able to draw out wounded from the jaws of illness.  A doctor should, therefore, be fully aware of his role in this regard in addition to this professional competency. 

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NURSE ROLE 

A good Nurse should know nursing thoroughly. In a developing country like Pakistan, responsibilities of a nurse are greatly enhanced because she / he has to play an important role of reforming those people that she comes across as patients.

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Cont…  Poverty

and illiteracy are the tub basic problems in developing countries. A nurse should guide the people how they should have good health, physically mentally, and socially. She should teach them the importance of cleanliness a balance diet and good living condition she should also give them the concept of vaccination against many disease also of the family planning. She can develop in them a confidence to consult a doctor when ever they are ill. GA

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RELATIVES 

Frequently, there are problems about communication because relatives may not know how much to discuss with the patient. Discussion between the patients of his relatives about the importance aspects of illness. These things are difficult to have in a hospital setting. GA

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Cont…  When

a persons falls ill his relatives show a lot of interest in the beginning they try to help and support him in every way than can. With the passage of time visitors and phone calls gradually reduce and the close relatives of the patient are often left unsupported, just at the time when difficult decisions have be made for him. GA

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VISITORS 

It can be very tiring for the patients if they have to talk to the visitors continuously for a long time. The visitors often ask a lot of questions that usually leave a negative effect as for as the recovery of the patients is concerned.

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Cont…  In

the hospital, most ill matched visitors often arrive together. All these factors distributed the patients mentally and emotionally. It is the responsibilities of the ward administration to talk care of these things, which are play a very decisive role in the recovery of the patients. GA

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PATIENT AT HOME The patients retain a grater degree autonomy and control at home. As a result, the nursing care becomes more difficult of home as the patient may be willing to comply with the treatment prescribed by the doctor or the advice the nurse in a home situation.  Nurses are usually better than relation at giving all the possible care to the patients in his home environment. 

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PROLONGED ILLNESS: Prolonged illness in a home setting often result in isolation of the family as a whole. As a result of additional difficult of amusing a lot of visitors, the members of the family do not give them a warm welcome either.  Direct patient care may be secondary importance where a person is available who could take care, it helps and support of a nurse is made available. 

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CULTURAL INFLUENCED ON HEALTH CARE Cultural beliefs and practices are an important part of data gathering in the nursing assessment.  Nurses continuously encounter belief and practices that may facilitate or unpaid nursing intervention, including attitudes towards family planning, food, via, and yolk ways that are firmly fixed in the culture the language of the patient may be different from that of the larger culture. 

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