Health Sciences 4710A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intercultural Competence, Liminality, Deeper Understanding
4 Mar 2019
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Groups of people sharing customs, religious beliefs, values, eating practices, clothing, behaviour, language, symbols, and rituals that make up daily life. It helps people develop a philosophy of life. Culture influences the assessment of comfort and needs of the dying and the interventions accepted. Culture affects the selection of health care providers and the perception of their efficacy. Many people ask about ethnicity of doctor or the last name so as to know their ethnicity. Ask if it"s a male or female doctor. Culture influences the understanding of the cause of death. Guides the process of care of body after death and funeral rituals. Provides guidelines for the expression of grief and roles in bereavement. Western culture has more inward grief rather than outward. Not much unifies different cultures and their ideas/views of death but 2 things seem to be experienced universally.
