HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Medical Anthropology
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Define culture and how it intersects with meanings of health. Explore why culture is a determinant of health. Discover the relative importance of culture in relation to health. Determine the cultural importance of health care practitioners and healers. Models of health: biomedical, behavioural/lifestyle, holistic, social, ecological. Studies all aspects of society from cross-cultural perspective. Field work and ethnographic research: prolonged engagement to study (cid:522)behaviour, customs, rituals, interactions, practices(cid:523) How cultural context shapes beliefs, knowledge, experiences, illness, healing. Common factors that constitute culture: culture sharing group, learning, sharing, common beliefs, values as frame reference, lens and view (to understand differently, transmitted and maintained in tangible elements that only members understand. Ethnicity: loosely refers to origin of birth for groups of individuals. Even though culture is shared, not everyone"s the same. Spiritual health indicated by a sense of (cid:522)peace, hope, purpose, commitment, worth(cid:523) Found through religious practice or connections with values, music, etc. Support people and improve sense of well-being.
