NURS1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Osteopathy, Chilblains, Ethnocentrism
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People"s health beliefs and practices vary greatly from place to place, and within post-industrial societies built upon migration, such as australia this medical pluralism brings both health risk s and health benefits. We need a broad and holistic understanding of health and healing to effectively treat and prevent illness and to promote well-being in individuals, families and communities. Biomedicine is not a completely neutral healing system. It is affected by culture and the society in which it operates. Studies have shown differences in biomedical practice between countries where biomedicine is the dominant from of healthcare: Disease identification: the same set of symptoms are more likely to be diagnosed as chronic bronchitis in the united kingdom and emphysema in. Use of technology: the introduction of computed tomography (ebct) scanners into 2 hospitals in massachusetts, usa, required significant social, behavioural and psychological change to integrate the technology into hospital life.
